ened
to begin playing, the horse sprang wildly, the saddle girth broke and
Jackson was thrown heavily to the ground.

"You'd better believe there was excitement then," said the narrator,
a clerk in one of the stores. "Everybody ran forward to pick up the
general. He had been thrown so hard that he was stunned and had big
bruises. That horse did him more damage than all the armies of the
North have done. I can tell you there was alarm for a while among the
Johnnies, but they say he was all over it before he left."

They wandered back toward their own command and the obliging guide
pointed out to them a house which the Confederate generals had made
their headquarters. They saw Colonel Winchester entering it, and
thanking the clerk, followed him.

Union officers were already in the house looking with curiosity at the
chairs and tables that Jackson and Lee and Longstreet had occupied. Dick
caught sight of a small package lying on one of the tables, but another
man picked it up first. As he did so he looked at Dick and said in
triumph:

"Three good cigars that the rebels have left behind. Have one, Mason?"

"Thanks, but I don't smoke."

"All right, I'll find someone else who does."

He pulled off a piece of paper wrapped around them, threw it on the
floor and put the cigars in his pocket. Dick was about to turn away when
he happened to glance at the wrapping lying on the floor.

His eyes were caught by the words written in large letters:

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF NORTH--

Something seemed to shoot through his brain. It was like a flash of
warning or command and he obeyed at once. He picked up the paper and
smoothed it out in his hand. The full line read like the headline in a
newspaper:

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA.
September 9, 1862.

Then with eyes bulging in his head he read:

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA.
September 9, 1862.
Special Orders, No. 191.

The army will resume its march tomorrow, taking the Hagerstown road.
General Jackson's command will form the advance, and after passing
Middletown with such portions as he may select, take their route toward
Sharpsburg, cross the Potomac at the most convenient point and by Friday
morning take possession of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, capture such
of them as may be at Martinsburg, and intercept such as may attempt to
escape from Harper's Ferry.