He would stay
with the army until the end, and he departed for Lexington, where he took
the train for Louisville. Thence he went southward directly by rail
to Bowling Green, where the Northern army was encamped, with lines
stretching as far south as Nashville, and where he received the heartiest
of greetings from his comrades.
"I knew you'd come," said Warner. "Perhaps a man with a mother like
yours ought to stay at home, and again he ought to come. So there you
are, and here you are!"
Dick was familiar with the country about Bowling Green. It was a part
of the state in which he had relatives, and he had visited it more than
once. He also saw the camps left by Buckner's men nearly a year ago,
when they were marching southward to be taken by Grant at Donelson.
Since he had come back to this region it seemed to him that they were
always fighting their battles over again. Grant and Rosecrans had fought
a terrible but victorious battle at Corinth in Mississippi, and now
Rosecrans had come north while Grant remained in the further south.
He was sorry it was not Grant who commanded on that line.
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