But our batteries are raking them horribly.

Their men are falling by the scores and hundreds." Miss Woodville uttered a deep sigh and turned her face away.

But she looked again in a few moments.

The terrible spell was upon her, too.
Dick's nerves were quivering.

His heart was with the assailants and theirs with the assailed, but he would not speak aloud against the hopes of Colonel Woodville and his daughter, since he was in their house, such as it was, and, in a measure, under their protection.
"Their charge is splendid," continued the colonel, "and I hope Pemberton has made full use of the ground for defense! He will need all the help he can get! Oh, to be out of the battle on such a day! The smoke is in the way again and I can see nothing.