Fortune was launching two thunderbolts upon the Confederacy at the same moment.

They were to strike upon fields a thousand miles apart, and the double blow was to be mortal.
But Dick knew nothing of Gettysburg then, nor was he to know anything until days afterward.

He certainly had no thought of the East while he watched the two generals under the tree.

Dick's comrades were with him, but so intense was their curiosity that none of them spoke.

Thousands of men were gazing with the same eagerness, and the Southern earthworks were covered with the defenders.
It was one of the most dramatic scenes in Dick's life, the two men under the tree, and the tens of thousands who watched.