ington."

But Colonel Leonidas Talbot, who stood close by, raised his hand
warningly.

"Boys," he said, "this is only the beginning."

Appendix: Transcription notes:

This etext was transcribed from a volume printed in April, 1964
(Twenty-eighth Printing)

The following modifications were applied while transcribing the
printed book to e-text:

chapter 1:
- Fixed typo ("hestitated"), page 22, para 2
- Fixed typo (changed "this father" to "his father"), page 23,
first line of para 5

chapter 2:
- Changed "t" to upper-case in sentence "to bed!" on page 40, para 3

chapter 3:
- Removed an extraneous quotation mark on page 62, at the end of para 4
- Fixed typo ("extaordinary"), page 63, para 2
- Fixed typo ("fews"), page 65, para 5

chapter 4:
- Fixed typo ("feeliing"), page 81, para 6

chapter 6:
- Added a missing comma on page 111, third sentence
- Fixed typo ("tomorow"), page 119, para 7

chapter 9:
- Fixed typo ("tomorow"), page 187, para 3

chapter 10:
- Page 197, second para: replaced a comma with a period preceding "Yet"
(However, It is unclear whether the author intended a period, or
whether instead the "yet" should be lower case - either would serve
equally well.)
- Fixed typo (changed "achievment" to "achievement"), page 208, para 8

chapter 11:
- Fixed typo ("thy're") on page 234, para 4

chapter 12:
- Page 241, para 1: changed "four o'clock this morning" to "four
o'clock this afternoon" - the content of this page and the following
pages clearly indicates that the march started in mid-day,
not before dawn

chapter 13:
- Fixed typo ("persausive") on page 282, para 4
- Fixed typo ("aand") on page 284, para 4

chapter 14:
- Fixed typo (changed "hid" to "hide"), page 289, para 1
- Fixed typo ("batallions"), page 292, para 1
- Fixed typo ("aand"), page 293, para 5
- Added missing close-quotation-marks to para 7 on page 295
- Added missing close-quotation-marks to para 8 on page 296
- Fixed typo ("paseed"), page 299, para 1

chapter 16:
- Removed a duplicate "to" on page 330, para 3

Limitations imposed by converting to plain ASCII:

- The printed book presented the names of newspapers and ships
in italics, but italics are not available in plain ASCII

Chapter 1, page 9: Pendleton News, News, Louisville Journal, News
page 10: News
Chapter 3, page 71: Mercury, Star o