And which do you like the better now, the Redcoats or the Continentals ?" "The Redcoats, sir, they have such pretty clothes," said the nascent woman.
"Ah, my dear," he replied blithely, catching her up in his arms and kissing her the while, "they look better, but they don't fight.

The ragged fellows are the boys for fighting." "Singular man!" mused Seymour, contrasting the outbreak of wrath at the recalcitrant officer, the open Bible he had been reading, and the last merry, tender greeting to the child.

But his musings were interrupted by the general himself, speaking.
"General Greene, you would better ride over to the landing and place the different brigades; take Hamilton with you, and perhaps General Knox will go also to look out for the artillery.

The brigades were to start at three o'clock for McConkey's Ford, and the nearest of them should be there now.

We shall move in two divisions after we leave Birmingham on the other side.