He could see from where he stood the flash of rifle fire and the blaze of cannon, and both eye and ear told him that the battle was not moving back upon the South.
"It seems that we do not make headway, sir," he said to Colonel Winchester, who also stood by him, looking and listening.
"Not that I can perceive," replied the colonel, "and yet with the rush of forty thousand fresh troops of ours upon the field I deemed victory quick and easy.

How the battle grows! How the South fights!" Colonel Winchester walked away presently and joined Sherman, who was eagerly watching the mighty conflict, into which he knew that his own worn and shattered troops must sooner or later be drawn.

He walked up and down in front of his lines, saying little but seeing everything.

His tall form was seen by all his men.

He, too, must have felt a singular thrill at that moment.