"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. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Shades of the Wilderness, by Joseph A. Altsheler