Pemberton is showing more judgment than I expected of him.

The defense should hold its fire until the enemy is well within range and that's what we're doing!" The colonel leaned a little more heavily upon him, but Dick steadied himself.

The old man still kept the glasses to his eyes, and swept them back and forth in as wide an arc as their position permitted.

The hills shook with the thunder of the cannon, and the brilliant sun, piercing through the smoke, lighted up the vast battle line.
"The attack of the skirmishers grows hotter," said the old man.

"The thickets blaze with the fire of their rifles.