ONE:The long line was halted in anxious expectation for a little while, as the storm of battle rose, and the men looked into each other's faces with sickening apprehension, for it seemed much like defeat and capture. Then loud cheers, taken up clear down the line', rose as Turchin's Brigade, by a swift bayonet charge, swept away all opposition, scattered the rebels to the shelter of the woods, and reopened the way. But the rebels still continued to fire long distance shots at the road as outlined by the burn ing fences.And how do you think they liked that?
TWO: this morning. Yores,"I'll fall back and keep the boys together," said Shorty, as soon as an intermission allowed them to speak.
TWO:"It is not good to be free," he said at last, in a reasonable, weary tone. "In the cold there is a bad thing. In the rain there is a bad thing. To be free is to go to these bad things."
THREE:"Whose orders?" demanded Levi. "Who dares give orders that over-ride mine? You go at once and have an enginethe best one you havehitched on. Couple on my car, and be ready to start in 15 minutes. Fifteen minutes I give you," continued he, looking at his watch. "Tell the Train Dispatcher to clear everything into switches until we get to Murfreesboro, and have the operator at Murfreesboro lay by everything till we get to Nashville.""And you hope to be struck dead if you tell a word to anybody?"
THREE:"Why, how in the world did they manage?" asked Si.He called: "Dara." It was hard to hear his own voice. There was no answer, and he had expected none: but he had had to call.
