All eyes were still for Grant and Pemberton.
After a while each returned to his own command, and there was an armistice until the next day, when the full surrender was made, and Grant and his officers rode into Vicksburg.

At the same time Lee was gathering his men for the retreat into the South from the stricken field of Gettysburg.

It was the Fourth of July, the eighty-seventh anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and no one could have possibly conceived a more striking celebration.
As soon as Dick was free for a little space he hurried to the ravine, and, as before, found there the open door.

He passed in without hesitation.
The light as of old filtered into the room, and Colonel Woodville lay just as before in bed with his great bald head upon the pillow.

Miss Woodville sat beside the bed, reading aloud from Addison.