?"

"Because you've left the way to your king easier. I shall promptly move
along that road."

"As Grant moved through the Wilderness."

"Don't depreciate Grant, Leonidas. He never stops pounding. We've
fought two great battles with him in the Wilderness and a third at Cold
Harbor, but he's still out there facing us. Can't you see the Yankees
with your glasses, Harry?"

"Yes, sir, quite clearly. They're about to fire a shot from a big gun in
a wood. There it goes!"

The deep note of the cannon came to them, passed on, and then rolled back
in echoes like a threat.

Appendix: Transcription notes:

The following modifications were applied while transcribing the
printed book to etext:

Chapter 1
Page 6, para 1, change "criticise" to "criticize", for consistency
Page 20, para 6, fix typo, "calvaryman"
Page 21, para 8, change "things" to "thing"

Chapter 2
Page 35, para 2, add missing hyphen in "commander-in-chief"

Chapter 3
Page 48, para 1, change "where-ever" to "wherever"
Page 49, para 2, fix typo, period should be comma
Page 49, para 2, change "gaints" to "giants", which is my best guess
as to what it should be

Chapter 4
Page 74, para 7, add missing period

Chapter 7
Page 124, para 6, fix typo "qouth"
Page 132, para 14, "Pleasonton" should be "Pleasanton"

Chapter 10
Page 182, para 5, add missing close-quotes

Chapter 11
Page 208, para 6, add missing close-quotes

Chapter 12
Page 229, para 3, fix typo, "dulplicate"

Chapter 13
Page 245, para 3, change "with" to "was"

Chapter 14
Page 260, para 2, removed a badly-misplaced comma

Chapter 16
Page 301, para 4, moved a badly-misplaced comma

Chapter 2, page 34, para 3 contains the phrase "rest and realization".
Probably should be "relaxation", but maybe not, so I left it as is.

The following words were printed with accented vowels or with the "ae"
ligature, but these few occurrences hardly warrant an 8-bit version of
the text:
cooperation fete reentered Plataea Thermopylae

As with all the books in this series, there are many instances where
commas seem to be missing or misplaced, but, except as noted above,
I refrained from "fixing" these.

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