I learned from the hunters in Nebraska that when you strike the trail of a buffalo herd, all you had to do was to keep on and you'd strike the herd itself." It was not yet noon and McClellan's army began to go into camp at Frederick.

Dick and Pennington got a chance to stroll about a little, and they picked up much gossip.

Young women, with strong Southern proclivities, looked with frowning eyes upon their blue uniforms, but the frank and pleasant smiles of the two lads disarmed them.

Older women of the same proclivities did not melt so easily, but continued to regard them with a hard and burning gaze.
But there were men strongly for the Union, and the two friendly lads picked up many details from them.

They showed them a grove in which Lee, Jackson, Longstreet and D.H.Hill had all been camped at once.