were needed most.

Harry did not know for many days that this fierce first day and the
gathering of the foes on Gettysburg was wholly unknown to both North and
South. The two armies had passed out of sight under the horizon's rim,
and the greatest battle of the war was to be fought unknown, until its
close, to the rival sections.

Harry and Dalton, keeping close together, because they were comrades and
because they felt the need of companionship, watched from their own hill
the town and the hill beyond. Harry felt no joy. The victory was not
yet to him a victory. He knew that the field below, terrible to the
sight, was destined to become far more terrible, and the coming twilight
was full of omens and presages.

The sun sank at last upon the scene of human strife and suffering,
but night brought with it little rest, because all through the darkness
the brigades and regiments were marching toward the fatal field.





CHAPTER XIII

GETTYSBURG