We don't ride unhurt over the Johnnies." "Don't I know it ?" said Pennington.

"Haven't I been learning it every day for three years ?" Action was prompt as the young officers had hoped.

The very next day after the meeting with his superior, Sheridan prepared to march, and the hopes of Dick and his friends rose very high.

They did not know that daring Southern spies had learned of the meeting of Grant and Sheridan, and Early, judging that it portended a great movement against him, was already consolidating his forces and preparing to meet it.

And Jubal Early was an able and valiant general.
Dick did not sleep that night.