You ought to have thought of this, and staid up there and got killed, and let some better-looking man got away, that would have done the company credit.
Why didn't you think of this ?" "Git!" said Abe, sententiously, with a twist in the coward's collar, that, with the help of an opportune kick by Kent, sent him sprawling down the bank.
"Captain Bennett," shouted the Colonel angrily, "Fix bayonets there in front, and drive these hounds off, or we'll never get there." A show of savage-looking steel sent the skulkers down a side-path through the woods.
The tumult of the battle heightened with every step the regiment advanced.

A turn in the winding road brought them to an opening in the woods which extended clear to the summit.

Through this the torrent of noise poured as when a powerful band passes the head of a street.

Down this avenue came rolling the crash of thousands of muskets fired with the intense energy of men in mortal combat, the deeper pulsations of the artillery, and even the fierce yells of the fighters, as charges were made or repulsed.
Glen felt the blood settle around his heart anew.
"Get out of the road and let the artillery pass! Open up for the artillery!" shouted voices from the rear.

Everybody sprang to the side of the road.
There came a sound of blows rained upon horses bodies--of shouts and oaths from exited drivers and eager officers--of rushing wheels and of ironed hoofs striking fire from the grinding stones.