"
A chilly rain was pouring down. A cold fog was rising from the
Cumberland, wrapping the town in mists. It was certainly a dreary time
in which to march to battle, and the young soldiers rising in the gloom
of the dawn and starting amid such weather were depressed.
"Pennington," said Warner, "will you help me in a request to our Kentucky
friend to join us in three cheers for the Sunny South, the edge of which
he has the good fortune to inhabit? I haven't seen the real sun for
about a month, and I suppose that's why they call it sunny, and I'm
informed that this big river, the Cumberland, often freezes over, which
I suppose is the reason why they call it Southern. I hear, too, that
people often freeze to death in North Georgia, which is further south
than this. After this bit of business is over I'm going to forbid winter
campaigns in the south."
"It does get mighty cold," said Dick. "You see we're not really a
southern people. We just lie south of the northern states and in
Kentucky, at least, we have a lot of cold weather. Why, I've seen it
twenty-three degrees below zero in the southern part of the state,
and it certainly can get cold in Tennessee, too.
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