noon
`` I know they will , especially if I get my share of the fighting , '' answered Deck . But the story of this campaign of the Riverlawn Cavalry , ending with the decisive battle of Mill Springs , is completed . Deck Lyon has won and obtained his promotion , and has entered upon a new sphere of duty , in which his bravery , skill , and enterprise enabled him to distinguish himself . Before noon a messenger , escorted by a squad of cavalrymen , arrived at the camp with sealed orders for General Woodbine , and bearing a large bag of letters for the officers and soldiers . There were several for Major Lyon and for his two sons . They were from home ; and everything at Riverlawn was quiet and prosperous , with no evidences of war near the family . Levi Bedford kept a watch every night at the fort named after him , and the fifty-one negroes were as tractable as usual .