Shiloh, his capture, and his knowledge of the secret Southern advance, of which he could give no warning, came back to him with uncommon vividness.

He knew that no such surprise could occur here, but they seemed to be lost in the wilderness.

The mountains and forests oppressed him.
"Well, Dick," said Warner, "we're posted strongly.

We've rows of sentinels as thick as hedges, and I've the colonel's permission to go to sleep.

I'll be slumbering in ten minutes, and I'd advise you to do the same." He lay on a blanket and soon slept.