They stretched their long limbs, felt their big muscles, and wondered why they were not led forward at once.
But before they marched they were ordered to take food from their knapsacks and eat.

Five minutes at most were allowed, and there was to be no nonsense, no loud talking.

Some who had come north with negro servants stared at these officers who dared to talk to them as if they were slaves.

But the words of anger stopped at their lips.

They would take their revenge instead on the Yankees.
Harry and his two friends had fitted themselves already into military discipline and military ways.