"Who commanded the vanguard ?" The two Hessians looked at each other stupidly, and I asked the question again before Grant saw fit to reply.

His manner was excessively insolent.
"That is more than I know.

We joined after dark, and I did not meet Delavan's officers." "He vas vat you call maype a volunteer leftentant," added one of the Germans brokenly.

"At Mount Holly we met, yah, and from there he joined." "Not one of Delavan's men then ?" "I dink not; he vas Light Dragoon.

I haf the vagon guard--the first vagons--an' see him there.