We spent the three succeeding days in and about the woods at Coolnamuck.
Three more anxious days and nights never darkened the destiny of baffled rebels.

Every morning arose upon a new hope which was blasted ere night came on by some sad intelligence.

The news that reached us was partly true and partly false: of the former character was the account of our beloved chief's arrest, which took place on the evening of Sunday, the 6th of August.

In proportion as it nerved our purpose and urged us to desperation, did that fatal information scatter the agencies on which we were to depend.

The most desperate hazards would be readily undertaken in that hour of gloom.