He would stay with the army until the end, and he departed for Lexington, where he took the train for Louisville.

Thence he went southward directly by rail to Bowling Green, where the Northern army was encamped, with lines stretching as far south as Nashville, and where he received the heartiest of greetings from his comrades.
"I knew you'd come," said Warner.

"Perhaps a man with a mother like yours ought to stay at home, and again he ought to come.

So there you are, and here you are!" Dick was familiar with the country about Bowling Green.

It was a part of the state in which he had relatives, and he had visited it more than once.