The vegetation is magnificent, but for a home give me higher ground, Dick." "Me too, sir," said Warner.

"The finest state in this Union is Vermont.
I like to live on firm soil, even if it isn't so fertile, and I like to see the clear, pure water running everywhere, brooks and rivers." "I'll admit that Vermont is a good state for two months in the year," said Dick.
"Why not the other ten ?" "Because then it's frozen up, solid and hard, so I've heard." The other boys laughed and kept up their chaff, but Colonel Winchester rode soberly ahead.

Behind him trailed the Winchester regiment, now reorganized and mounted.

Fresh troops had come from Kentucky, and fragments of old regiments practically destroyed at Perryville and Stone River had been joined to it.
It was a splendid body of men, but of those who had gone to Shiloh only about two hundred remained.

The great conflicts of the West, and the minor battles had accounted for the others.