That proves to me mathematically that he is unharmed and that he is riding northward--to defeat, I hope." "We've got to win here," said Dick.

"If we don't, I'm thinking the cause of the Union will be more than doubtful.

We don't seem to have the generals in the East that we have in the West.

Our leaders hang on here and they don't overestimate the enemy." "That's so," said Pennington.

"Now, I wonder what 'Pap' Thomas is doing." "He's somewhere in Tennessee, I suppose, watching Bragg," said Dick.
"That's a man I like, and, I think, after this affair here is over, we may go back to his command.