The North is prepared as it never was before. And Grant will hammer and
hammer forever. We know what a man Lee is. The whole North admits it,
but I tell you the sun of the South is setting."
"You're growing poetical and poetry is no argument."
"But unlimited men, unlimited cannon and rifles, unlimited ammunition and
supplies and a general who is willing to use them, are. Of course I know
that you can't carry any such message to General Lee, but I feel it to be
the truth."
"We've a great general and a great army that say, no."
Nobody paid any attention to the two. It was merely another one of those
occasions when men of the opposing sides stood together amid the dead and
wounded, and talked in friendly fashion. But Harry knew that he could
not delay long.
"I've got to go, Dick," he said. "And I've a message too, one that I
want you to deliver to General Grant."
"What is it?"
"Tell him that we've more than held our own to-day, and that we'll thrash
him like thunder to-morrow, and whenever and wherever he may choose,
no matter what the odds are against us."
Dick laughed.
"I see that you won't believe even a little bit of what I tell you,"
he said "and maybe if I were in your place I wouldn't either.
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