They knew they were going to their death--and everybody else knew it that saw them go--but they charged!" "Did you see it, Capt.

Drummond ?" "I saw it." "And did they go to their death ?" said Daisy, awe-stricken, for Captain Drummond's look said that he was thinking of something it had been grave to see.
"Why yes.

Look here, Daisy--here were cannon; there were cannon; there were more cannon; cannon on every side of them but one.

They went into death they knew, when they went in there." "How many of them went there ?" "Six hundred." "Six hundred!--were they _all_ killed ?" "No.

There were a part of them that escaped and lived to come back." Daisy looked at the pebbles and the guns in profound silence.
"But if the officer knew the order was a mistake, why must he obey it ?" "That's a soldier's duty, Daisy.