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Grant at Knoxville Comes to Strawberry Plains A gathering at Parke's quarters Grant's quiet manner No conversational discussion Contrast with Sherman Talk of cadet days Grant's riding-school story No council of war Qualities of his dispatches Returns by Cumberland Gap Longstreet's situation Destitution of both armies Railroad repairs and improved service Light-draught steamboats Bridges Cattle herds on the way Results of Grant's inspection tour Foster's movement to Dandridge on the French Broad Sheridan His qualities August Willich Hazen His disagreement with Sheridan Its causes and consequences Combat at Dandridge A mutual surprise Sheridan's bridge An amusing blunder A consultation in Dandridge Sturgis's toddy Retreat to Strawberry Plains A hard night march A rough day An uncomfortable bivouac Concentration toward Knoxville Rumors of reinforcement of Longstreet Expectation of another siege The rumors untrue.
Sturgis's halted not far from the western foot of the mountain, with corps headquarters near by. Pleasonton's cavalry was a little in advance of us, at the forks of the road where the old Sharpsburg road turns off to the left from the turnpike.
How could she have said she was weary of that quiet house, where even Ben Sturgis's grumblings only made a kind of harmonious bass in the concord between him and his wife, so thoroughly did they know each other with the knowledge of many years! How could she have longed to quit that little peaceful room where she had experienced such loving tendence!
Sturgis's division was placed on the sides of the road leading to the stone bridge just mentioned. Willcox's was put in reserve in rear of Sturgis. My own was divided, Scammon's brigade going with Rodman, and Crook's going with Sturgis. Crook was ordered to take the advance in crossing the bridge in case we should be ordered to attack.
She glanced across at Ken. He too was looking at Kirk, with an oddly sober expression, and when she caught his eye he grew somewhat red and stared out at the rain. "Better, Mother dear?" Felicia asked, curling down on a footstool at Mrs. Sturgis's feet.
There was a general snicker at Sturgis's expense. "Well, now," continued Potts gravely, "a woman who should fall in love with one of us fellows and deem him a hero would be substantially in Titania's plight when she adored Bottom, and about as much an object of pity when her hero disclosed an asininity which would be at least as near to being his real character as the heroism she ascribed to him."
Now, when a man feels like that, it is impossible to restrain him long. For a week Mortimer Sturgis's soul sizzled within him: then he could contain himself no longer. One night, at one of the informal dances at the hotel, he drew the girl out on to the moonlit terrace. "Miss Somerset " he began, stuttering with emotion like an imperfectly-corked bottle of ginger-beer.
On arriving at Sturgis's room, he found it full of tobacco smoke, and the usual crowd there, who hailed him vociferously. For he was one of the most popular men in college, although for a year or so he had been living outside the buildings.
General G. J. Smith, with the two divisions of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Corps which had been with General Banks up Red River, had returned from that ill-fated expedition, and had been ordered to General Canby at New Orleans, who was making a diversion about Mobile; but, on hearing of General Sturgis's defeat, I ordered General Smith to go out from Memphis and renew the offensive, so as to keep Forrest off our roads.
As the easiest mode of getting Sturgis's fresh men into position, Willcox made room on his left for Ferrero's brigade supported by Nagle's, doubling also his lines at the extreme right.
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