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The armies of Lee and Jackson marched back toward the Southern capital, for the possession of which forty thousand men had fallen in the Seven Days. Harry rode with Dalton, St. Clair and Langdon. They had come through the inferno unhurt, and while they shared in the rejoicings of the Virginia people, they had seen war, continued war, in its most terrible aspects, and they felt graver and older.
By the side of them marched the thin ranks of the Invincibles, with the two colonels, erect and warlike, leading them. Just ahead was Stonewall Jackson, stooped slightly in the saddle, the thoughtful blue eyes looking over the heads of his soldiers into the future.
“If he hadn't made that tremendous campaign in the valley,” said Dalton, “McClellan allied with McDowell would have come here with two hundred thousand men and it would have been all over.”
“But he made it and he saved us,” said Harry, glancing at his hero.
“And I'm thinking,” said Happy Tom Langdon, glancing toward the North, “that he'll have to make more like it. The Yankees will come again, stronger than ever.”
The following modifications were applied while transcribing the printed book to e-text:
While the other books in this series are consistently printed with a hyphen in “lieutenant-colonel”, some chapters in this book were printed with and some without. I added the hyphen where missing in chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 14. chapter 1 - Page 20, para 10, changed “its” to “it's” chapter 2 - Page 45, para 6, removed extraneous quotation mark chapter 6 - Page 132, para 3, moved a comma - my general policy is not to add/remove/move commas, even though I often find commas which seem to me out of place, but this one was just too bad to ignore chapter 8 - Page 159, para 2, fixed typo (“enmy”) - Page 167, para 5, missing quotation mark chapter 10 - Page 211, para 4, missing quotation mark - Page 216, para 6, changed “his section” to “this section” chapter 11 - Page 225, para 4, fixed typo (“Generel”) chapter 12 - Page 249, para 4, fixed typo (“exerienced”) - Page 261, para 4, fixed typo (“woud”) - Page 262, para 1, removed excess quotation mark chapter 13 - Page 277, para 3, missing quotation mark - Page 292, para 3, apostrophe printed instead of quotation mark chapter 14 - Page 298, para 4, changed “Its” to “It's” - Page 312, para 6, missing quotation mark - Page 314, para 4, changed “.” to “:” - Page 315, para 5, removed excess period chapter 15 - Page 329, para 5, fixed typo (“painly”) - Page 331, para 1, fixed typo (“caried”) - Page 331, para 11, changed apostrophe to quotation mark Limitations imposed by converting to plain ASCII: 8-bit characters were converted to their 7-bit equivalents: - chapter 9, page 186, “melee” - chapter 11, page 241, “Themopylae” (“ae” ligature)I did not modify:
- As with all the books in this series, commas often seem to me to be missing or misplaced. Often one comma is printed where either no comma or two commas would seem more appropriate, for example: A pleasant month for Harry, and all the young staff officers passed at Winchester.
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