[rustbucket]

Do you, as a reader, know where you are and what is about to happen?

I'm in Texas and about to go to bed.

Sorry, carton, couldn't resist. I don't know anything about the 18th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, but looking it up suggests to me what your opening line refers to.

[carton253]

Thank you very much. So, if Jackson, Lee, Hooker, Stuart, et al all the way to Grant just came into the story without introduction or explanation... you would know who they were and what their relationship was to each other.

Meaning... I do not need to add biography and description for you to help you understand the story.

See you in the morning.