General Beauregard, whom you knew at Charleston, is to be in supreme command.
Can you leave here in a day or two for Richmond ?" Harry's eyes were sparkling, and the flush was still in his face.
"I could go in an hour," he replied.
"Such an abrupt departure as that is not needed.

Moreover the choice of a route is of great importance and requires thought.

If you were to take one of the steamers up the Ohio, say to Wheeling, in West Virginia, you would almost surely fall into the hands of the Northern troops.
The North also controls about all the railway connections there are between Kentucky and Virginia." "Then I must ride across the mountains." "These new friends of yours who saved you from the river, are they going to stay long in Frankfort ?" "Not more than a day or two, I think.

I gathered from what Jarvis said that they were not willing to remain long where trouble was thick." "How are their sympathies placed in this great division of our people ?" Harry laughed.
"I inferred," he replied, "from what Jarvis said that they intend to keep the peace.

He intimated to me that the silence of the mountains was more welcome to him than the cause of either North or South." Colonel Kenton smiled again.
"Perhaps he is wiser than the rest of us," he said, "but in any event, I think he is our man.