The Winchester regiment was sent back to Nashville to recuperate and seek recruits for its ranks. Dick and Warner and Pennington felt that their army had done well in the west, but their hopes for the Union were clouded by the news from the east. Lee and Jackson had triumphed again. Burnside, in midwinter, had hurled the gallant Army of the Potomac in vain against the heights of Fredericksburg, and twelve thousand men had fallen for nothing. “We need a man, a man in the east, even more than in the west,” said Warner. “He'll come. I'm sure he'll come,” said Dick. Appendix: Transcription notes: This ebook was transcribed from a volume of the 16th printing Despite the fact that this is a fictional work, I myself find it inappropriate that our fictional hero, Dick Mason, is credited with discovering the “lost” copy of Lee's General Order No. 191. In fact, Sergeant Bloss and Corporal Mitchell, of the 27th Indiana Infantry, found the envelope containing the order, along with the three cigars, in a field of clover on the morning of 09/13/1862. The following modifications were applied while transcribing the printed book to ebook: Chapter 2 Page 31, para 4, add missing close-quotes Page 51, para 3, add missing comma Page 51, para 6, fix typo (“Pennigton”) Page 52, para 7, add missing open-quotes Chapter 3 Page 68, para 4, changed “it” to “its” Chapter 4 Page 83, para 3, added a missing comma (In these books, I am often tempted to add/move/remove commas, but I generally avoid doing so. In this case, an additional comma was sorely needed.) Chapter 5 Page 105, para 3, add missing open-quotes Page 107, para 2, add missing open-quotes Page 118, para 5, changed “he know not” to “he knew not” Chapter 6 Page 142, para 11, add missing open-quotes Chapter 7 Page 157, para 2, add missing open-quotes Chapter 9 Page 191, para 6, add missing comma Page 196, para 2 and 3, fix closing quotation marks Page 197, para 1, add missing close-quote Chapter 10 Page 210, para 1, fix typo (“Pennigton”) Chapter 13 Page 276, para 1, change “a” to “as” Page 281, para 2, add missing close-quotes Page 283, para 8, change “in” to “is” Page 288, para 4, fix typo (“seeemd”) Page 293, para 4, add missing close-quotes Page 297, para 2, closing double-quote should be single-quote Limitations imposed by converting to plain ASCII: - The word “marquee” in chapter 3 was presented in the printed book with an accented “e” I did not change: - Inconsistent spelling/presentation in the printed book: “rearguard” and “rear guard”, “guerrilla” and “guerilla”, “round-about” and “roundabout”, “to-morrow” and “tomorrow” - “bowlder” in chapter 10 End of Project Gutenberg's The Sword of Antietam, by Joseph A. Altsheler