IN THE COVE General Sheridan permitted the Winchester men to rest a long time, or rather he ordered them to do so.

No regiment had distinguished itself more at Cedar Creek or in the previous battles, and it was best for it to lie by a while, and recover its physical strength--strength of the spirit it had never lost.

It also gave a needed chance to the sixteen slight wounds accumulated by Dick, Pennington and Warner to heal perfectly.
"Unless something further happens," said Warner, regretfully, "I won't have a single honorable scar to take back with me and show in Vermont." "I'll have one slight, though honorable, scar, but I won't be able to show it," said Pennington, also with regret.
"I trust that it's in front, Frank," said Dick.
"It is, all right.

Don't worry about that.

But what about you, Dick ?" "I had hopes of a place on my left arm just above the elbow.