If the Union cavalry were trying to keep them from laying bridges across
the Potomac he wanted to help drive them away.
Harry and Dalton had a right as aides and messengers of Lee to ride with
Sherburne, but before they joined him they rode among the Invincibles,
who were in great feather, because they too, for the time being, rode,
and toiled in neither dust nor mud.
"Colonel Sherburne may think a good deal of his own immediate troop,"
said St. Clair to Harry, "but if the men of the Invincibles could achieve
so much on foot they'll truly deserve their name on horseback. Where is
this enemy of ours? Lead us to him."
"You'll find him soon enough," said Harry. "You South Carolina talkers
have learned many times that the Yankees will fight."
"Yes, Harry, I admit it freely. But you must admit on your part that the
South Carolinians will fight as well as talk, although at present most of
the South Carolinians in this regiment are Virginians."
"But not our colonel and lieutenant-colonel," said Happy Tom. "Real old
South Carolina still leads."
"May they always lead!" said Harry heartily, looking at the two gray
figures.
"Tell Colonel Sherburne," said Happy Tom, who was in splendid spirits,
"that we congratulate him on his promotion and are ready to obey him
without question.
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