But this knowledge was little compensation to the Northern troops.

They knew that behind them was a great army, that Pope might have been present with fifty thousand men, sufficient to overwhelm Jackson.

Instead of the odds being more than two to one in their favor, they had been two to one against them.
It was a sullen army that lay in the woods in the first hour or two of the night, gasping for breath.

These men had boasted that they were a match for those of Jackson, and they were, if they could only have traded generals.

Dick and his comrades from the west began to share in the awe that the name of Stonewall Jackson inspired.
"He comes up to his advertisements.