"Knowing every path of the woods, they've gone ahead of us, and they mean to cut us off from Grant.

Nevertheless we'll make a way." He spoke firmly, but the junior officers of the staff did not exactly see how they were going to force a ford defended by a larger number of cavalry under the redoubtable Forrest.
"I didn't think Forrest would let us alone, and he hasn't," said Pennington.
"No, he hasn't," said Warner, "and it seems that he's checkmated us, too.

Why, that river is swollen by the rains so much that it's a hard job to cross it if no enemy were on the other side.

But you'll note, also, that the enemy, having got to the other side, can't come back again in our face to attack us." "But we want to go on and they don't," said Dick.

"They're satisfied with the enforced status quo, and we're not.