These preliminaries settled, the commanders retired to their respective corps.
The Confederate commanders did have a plan and the omens which seemed sinister to him were sinister in fact.
After these came the commanders of the cohorts and tribunes, having about them soldiers chosen out of the rest.
The German reply was still evasive and German naval commanders continued their course of sinking merchant ships.
Worthington was succeeded by Colonel C. L. Matthies, one of the bravest, best, and most loved commanders of our army.
The mantelpiece was decorated with sea-shells, over which hung a quadrant, flanked by two wood-cuts of most bitter-looking naval commanders.
To that end he called the commanders that were under him to a council of war, and consulted with them which way the assault might be managed to the best advantage.
He believed that two such redoubtable commanders must have formed a plan by this time, and, perhaps in the end, it would be worth a hundred thousand men to know it.
Behind these he set such carriages of the army as belonged both to himself and to the other commanders, with a considerable number of their horsemen for their security.
"Throughout this trying period, Sir Douglas Haig, aided by his divisional commanders and his brigade commanders, held the line with marvelous tenacity and undaunted courage."