They dismounted, drank hastily, and then let the horses take their fill.
"I like these hills and forests and their clear waters," said Dick, "and judging by the appearance it must be a fine country to which we're coming." "It is.

It's something like your Kentucky Blue Grass, although it's smaller and it's hemmed in by sharper and bolder mountains.

But I should say that the Shenandoah Valley is close to a hundred and twenty miles long, and from twenty-five to forty miles wide, not including its spur, the Luray Valley, west of the Massanuttons." "As large as one of the German Principalities." "And as fine as any of them." "It's where Stonewall Jackson made that first and famous campaign of his." "And it's lucky for us that we don't have to face him there now.

Early is a good general, they say, but he's no Stonewall Jackson." "And we're to be led by Sheridan.

I think he saved us at Perryville in Kentucky, but they say he's become a great cavalry commander.