... he looked over the barricades, while receiving the salutes and cheers of the men, he said to me, How strong! How strong! I still had much extension, so that there were gaps along Schurz's and Devens 's fronts. Colonel Comstock spoke to me in his quiet way: General, do close in those spaces! I said, The woods are thick and entangled; will anybody come through there Oh, they may! ...