"If you'll go with me to-night, Major, I'll show you some guerilla fighting.

You heard what Grant said about Delavan.

We've been waiting five days for him to head back toward Philadelphia.

He has twenty wagons, an' a foraging party of less than fifty men somewhere out Medford way," with sweep of hand to the northeast.

"If he an' Grant get together the two commands will outnumber us, but we'll have the advantage of surprise, of a swift attack in the dark.