Look back now, and you can see the armies face to face." They were on the highest hill, and all the cavalry had turned for a last glance.

Dick saw again the flashes from occasional rifle fire, and a dark column of smoke still rising from a spot which he knew to be the crater.

He shuddered, and was glad when the force, riding on again, passed over the hill.

Before them now stretched a desolated country, trodden under foot by the armies, and his heart bled again for Virginia, the most reluctant of all the states to secede, and the greatest of them all to suffer.
Colonel Hertford, Colonel Winchester, and the colonel of the third regiment, a Pennsylvanian named Bedford, rode together and their young officers were just behind.

All examined the country continually through glasses to guard against ambush.