An omnibusful of passengers, who happened to be present during the affray, suffered much alarm;[…]

Nothing serious, the veterinarian added. He was just off his feed a trifle.

Then the water clears and his sails swing to the wind, and he is off to the north, along that steel-gray shore of rampart rock, between the white-slab islands and the reefy coast.

The Army of the West reached Corinth sometime after the battle of Shiloh. We were 15,000 effectives, and brought Beauregard's effective force up to 45,000 men.