r a
Southern rumble that you hear?"

Harry laughed.

"I'll admit it's a good deal of a fancy," he said.

Arthur St. Clair suddenly leaped high in the air, and uttered at the
very top of his voice the wild note of the famous rebel yell.

"Look at the flags aloft in that cloud of dust! It's the Star and Bars!
God bless the Bonnie Blue Flag! They are our own men coming, and coming
in time!"

Now the battle flags appeared clearly through the dust, and the great
rebel yell, swelling and triumphant, swept the whole Southern line.
It was the remainder of Johnston's Army of the Shenandoah. It had
slipped away from Patterson, and all through the burning day it had been
marching steadily toward the battlefield, drummed on by the thudding
guns. Johnston, the silent and alert, was himself with them now,
and aflame with zeal they were advancing on the run straight for the
heart of the Northern army.

Kirby Smith, one of Harry's own Kentucky generals, was in the very van
of the relieving force. A man after Stonewall Jackson's own soul,
he rushed forward with the leading regiments and they hurled themselves
bodily upon the Northern flank.

The impact was terrible. Smith fell wounded, but his men rushed on and
the men behind also threw themselves into the battle. Almost at the
same instant Jubal Early, who had made a circuit with a strong force,
hurled it upon the side of the Northern army. The brave troops in blue
were exhausted by so many hours of fierce fighting and fierce heat.
Their whole line broke and began to fall back. The Southern generals
around the Henry house saw it and exulted. Swift orders were sent and
the bugles blew the charge for the men who had stood so many long and
bitter hours on the defense.

"Now, Invincibles, now!" cried Colonel Leonidas Talbot. "Charge home,
just once, my boys, and the victory is ours!"

Covered with dust and grime, worn and bleeding with many wounds, but
every heart beating triumphantly, what was left of the Invincibles rose
up and followed their leader. Harry was conscious of a flame almost
in his face and of whirling clouds of smoke and dust. Then the entire
Southern army burst upon the confused Northern force and shattered it
so completely that it fell to pieces.

The bravest battle ever fought by men, who, with few exceptions, had not
smelled the powder of war before, was lost and won.

As the Southern cannon and rifles beat upon them, the Northern army,
save