Then they were ordered to saddle and ride at once.
"What, so early ?" exclaimed Pennington.

"Why, it's not daylight yet.
Isn't this new general of ours overdoing it ?" "We wanted a general who would lead," said Warner, "and we've got him." "But a battle a day! Isn't that too large an allowance ?" "No.

We've a certain number of battles to fight, and the sooner we fight them the sooner the war will be over." "Here comes the dawn," said Dick, "and the bugles are singing to us to march.

It's the cavalry that are to show the way." The long line of horsemen rode on southward, leaving behind them Winchester, the little city that had been beloved of Jackson, and approached the Massanuttons, the bold range that for a while divided the valley into two parts.

The valley was twenty miles wide before they came to the Massanuttons, but after the division the western extension for some distance was not more than four miles across, and it was here that they were going.