The terms wasn't reely set till Thursday morning, but we knew they would be, and so all Wednesday night we was movin' acrost the river, and it kept up all next day,--day before yesterday.

You'd ought to 'a' been here then; you wouldn't wonder at my comin' down on you like a thousand of brick jest now, takin' you for a mobocrat.

You'd 'a' seen families druv right out of their homes, with no horses, tents, money, nor a day's provisions,--jest a little foolish household stuff they could carry in their hands,--sick men and women carried on beds, mothers luggin' babies and leadin' children.

My sakes! but I did want to run some bullets and fill my old horn with powder for the consolation of Israel! They're lyin' out over there in the slough now, as many as ain't gone to glory.
It made me jest plumb murderous!" The younger man uttered a sharp cry of anguish.

"What, oh, what has been our sin, that we must be proved again?
Why have we got to be chastened ?" "Then Brockman's force marched in Thursday afternoon, and hell was let loose.