The vedette on either flank was invisible.

Beyond the ravine were the Confederates, their skirmish line about three hundred yards beyond it, and their nightly vedette posts nobody knew where, for they used similar economy to ours in withdrawing their vedettes in the day.

"But in case the rebels are on this side of the road, what shall I do?" "It may be that their skirmishers are in the road, and their vedettes near the branch; in that case get as near as possible to the road.

Against the first vedettes of rebellion the army of routine will always muster, and it gathers to itself the indifferent, the startled cowards, the thinkers whose thought is finished, the lawyers whose laws are fixedan innumerable host.

Could I not post myself as a Confederate vedette between the connecting men?

Had it taken me two hours to crawl from the line of vedettes to this edge of the swamp?

I could see in the roadway two lancer vedettes with their black and white pennons, and I knew that when I was once past these I should be a free man once more.