It was certainly a dreary time in which to march to battle, and the young soldiers rising in the gloom of the dawn and starting amid such weather were depressed.
"Pennington," said Warner, "will you help me in a request to our Kentucky friend to join us in three cheers for the Sunny South, the edge of which he has the good fortune to inhabit?
I haven't seen the real sun for about a month, and I suppose that's why they call it sunny, and I'm informed that this big river, the Cumberland, often freezes over, which I suppose is the reason why they call it Southern.

I hear, too, that people often freeze to death in North Georgia, which is further south than this.

After this bit of business is over I'm going to forbid winter campaigns in the south." "It does get mighty cold," said Dick.

"You see we're not really a southern people.

We just lie south of the northern states and in Kentucky, at least, we have a lot of cold weather.