"There are no big cities in the South except New Orleans, but it's big as a fortress.

It's surrounded by earthworks, Frank, from which the Johnnies can pot you any time." "Well, at any rate, I'll be glad to see it--from a safe distance.

I wouldn't mind sitting down before a town.

There's too much wet country around here to suit me." "It's likely that you'll have a chance to sit for a long time.

We won't take Vicksburg easily." But the time for sitting down had not yet come.