Why should we surprise him?
He is here in his own country.

If the whole Southern army were sound asleep, a thousand of the natives would wake up their generals and tell them that the Yankee army was advancing." "Their sentinels are watching, anyhow," said Dick, "but I imagine that we'd gain something if the first rush was ours and not theirs." "We'll hope for the best," said Warner, "I wonder whose time this will be to get wounded.

It was mine at Antietam, yours, Dick, at Perryville, and only you are left Pennington, so it's bound to be you." "No, it won't be me," said Pennington stoutly.

"I've been wounded in two or three battles already, not bad wounds, just scratches and bruises, but as there were so many of 'em you can lump 'em together, and make one big wound.

That lets me out." The Winchester regiment lay in the very thickest of the forest and in order not to indicate to the enemy their precise position no fires were lighted.