What place is it, Dick ?" "It must be Frederick.

We had reports that the Johnnies were about here, but they must have vanished, since no bullets meet us.

The colonel is looking through his glasses, and, as he does not check his horse, it is evident that the enemy is not there." "But maybe he has been there, and if he has we'll just take his place.
I like the looks of these Maryland towns, Frank, and they're not so hostile to us." Colonel Winchester's skeleton regiment, now not amounting to more than three hundred men, was in the vanguard and it rode forward rapidly.

The people received them without either enthusiasm or marked hostility.

Yet the Union vanguard obtained news.