Spies had brought word that Grant, after nine months of waiting, and with Sheridan and a huge cavalry force on his flank, was about to make his great attack.

But the dauntless souls of Colonel Leonidas Talbot and Lieutenant Colonel Hector St.Hilaire remained unmoved.
"I'm glad the rains are apparently about to cease, Hector," said Colonel Talbot.

"When the ground grows firmer it will give General Lee a chance to make one of his great circling swoops, and rout the Yankee army." "So it will, Leonidas.

We've been waiting for it a long time, but the chance is here at last.

We've had enough of the trenches.