Harry and Dalton breathed deep sighs of relief when they were out of range.
"If a bullet had gone through my left side," said Dalton, "it wouldn't have come near my heart." "Why not ?" "Because my heart was in my mouth.

In fact, I don't think it has gone back yet to its natural place.

The Yankees certainly have the guns." "And the gunners who know how to use them.

But doesn't it feel good, George, to be back on the plank road ?" "It does.

I'll take my chance in open battle, but when I'm tangled up among bushes and vines and briars, I do hate to have a hundred-pound shell fired from an invisible gun burst suddenly on the top of my head.
What's all that firing off there to the left and farther on ?" "It means that some of our people have got deeper into the Wilderness than we have, and are feeling out Hooker.