He also saw the camps left by Buckner's men nearly a year ago, when they were marching southward to be taken by Grant at Donelson.
Since he had come back to this region it seemed to him that they were always fighting their battles over again.

Grant and Rosecrans had fought a terrible but victorious battle at Corinth in Mississippi, and now Rosecrans had come north while Grant remained in the further south.

He was sorry it was not Grant who commanded on that line.

He would have been glad to be under his command again, to feel that strong and sure hand on the reins once more.
Dick stayed a while in Bowling Green, and he saw all his relatives in the little city.

They were mostly on the other side, but they could not resist an ingenuous youth like Dick, and he passed some pleasant hours with them.