There ain't no doubt of it," said Sergeant Whitley.

"I never saw anybody fight better than our men did, an' that charge of the little troop of cavalry was never beat anywhere in the world.

But here we are licked, and thirty or forty thousand men of ours not many miles away!" He spoke the last words with a bitterness that Dick had never heard in his voice before.
"It's simple," said Warner, who was binding up his little wound with his own hand.

"It's just a question in mathematics.

I see now how Stonewall Jackson won so many triumphs in the Valley of Virginia.