But the men in gray made no real pursuit. They were so worn that they could not follow, and they yet scarcely believed in the magnitude of their own victory, snatched from the very jaws of defeat. Twenty-eight Northern cannon and ten flags were in their hands, but thousands of dead and wounded lay upon the field, and night was at hand again, close and hot. Harry turned back to the little plateau where those that were left of the Invincibles were already kindling their cooking fires. He looked for his two comrades and recognized them both under their masks of dust and powder. "Are you hurt, Tom?" he said to Langdon. "No, and I'm going to sleep in the White House at Washington after all." "And you, Arthur?" "There's a red line across my wrist, where a bullet passed, but it's nothing. Listen, what do you think of that, boys?" A Southern band had gathered in the edge of the wood and was playing a wild thrilling air, the words of which meant nothing, but the tune everything: "In Dixie's land I'll take my stand, To live and die for Dixie. Look away! Look away! Look away down South in Dixie." "So we have taken their tune from them and made it ours!" St. Clair exclaimed jubilantly. "After all, it really belonged to us! We'll play it through the streets of Washington." 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