Lower down they were brown, with touches of green that yet lingered, but higher up the glowing reds and golds of autumn were beginning to appear.

The wind that blew down from the crests was full of life.
Sheridan arrived and, riding before the center of his army, looked long and well at the Southern defenses.

Then he called his generals, and some of the colonels, including Winchester, and held a brief council.
"It means," said Warner, while the colonel was yet away at the meeting, "that we won't fight any this afternoon, but that we'll do a lot of riding tonight.

That position is too strong to be attacked.

It would cost us too many men to take it straight away, but having seen a specimen of Little Phil's quality we know that he'll try something else." "You mean get on their flank," said Dick.