Not that I put military authority over civil rule, but war has to be fought by soldiers.

I look for lively times in the Valley of Virginia." "Anyway, the Lord has delivered me from the trenches at Petersburg," said Pennington.

"Think of me, used to roaming over a thousand miles of plains, shut up between mud walls only four or five feet apart." "I believe that, with Sheridan, you're going to have all the roaming you want," said Dick.
They passed silent farm houses, but took nothing from them.

Ample provision was carried on extra horses or their own, and the three colonels were anxious not to inflame the country by useless seizures.
Twilight came, and the low mountains sank away in the dusk.

But they had already reached a higher region where nearly all the hills were covered with forest, and Colonel Hertford once more spread out the flankers, Dick and the sergeant, as before, taking the right with their little troop.
The night was fortunately clear, almost as light as day, with a burnished moon and brilliant stars, and they did not greatly fear ambush.