"I've been a-horse so long that I felt like a sailor coming ashore from a three years' cruise." "Agreed with me pretty well, all except the mud, since I was born on horseback," said Pennington.

"But I don't like to ride in a brown plaster suit of armor.

What do you think is ahead, boys ?" "Junction with General Grant," said Dick.

"They say, also, that General Sherman, after completing his great work in Georgia and North Carolina, is coming to join them too.

It will be a great meeting, that of the three successful generals who have destroyed the Confederacy, because there's nothing of it left now but Lee's army, and that they say is mighty small." It was in reality a triumphant march that they began after they left White House, refreshed, remounted and ready for new conquests.