Story copied from the Wikisource. “Do you think, colonel, that your brave Coulter would like to put one of his guns in here!” the general asked. He was apparently not altogether serious; it certainly did not seem a place where any artillerist, however brave, would like to put a gun. The colonel thought that possibly his division commander meant good-humouredly to intimate that Captain Coulter’s courage had been too highly extolled in a recent conversation between them. “It is the only place,” said the general. He was serious, then. “Ah, you have been over this road before! Directly at the house.”