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of his friends. This lasted into the afternoon, when he sank into
unconsciousness. Then came his death, and it was much like that of
Napoleon. He awoke suddenly from a deep stupor and cried out, in a
clear voice:

"Order A. P. Hill to prepare for action! Pass the infantry to the
front! Tell Major Hawks--"

He stopped, seemed to sink into a stupor again, but a little later
roused suddenly from it once more, and said, in the same clear voice:

"Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees."

Then, as his eyes closed, the soul of the great Christian soldier passed
into the fathomless beyond, to sit in peace with Cromwell and Washington,
and in time with Lee and Grant and Thomas, who were yet to come.

That night a whole army wept.

CHAPTER X

THE NORTHERN MARCH

It was days before Harry felt as if life could move on in the usual way.
He had loved Jackson next to his father. In fact, in the absence of his
own father the great general had stood in that place to him. He had
received from him so many marks of approval, and, riding as a trusted
member of Jackson's staff, his head had been in such a rosy cloud of
glory and victory, that now it seemed for a while as if the world had
come to an end.

He was disappointed, too, that they had reaped so little from
Chancellorsville. He believed at times that his general had died in
vain. He had but to ride a little distance and see the enemy across the
Rappahannock, where he had been so many months, with the same bristling
guns and the same superior forces.

He had been eager, like all the other young officers, to move directly
after the battle and attack the foe on his own ground, but when he
talked with the two colonels he realized that their numbers were too
small. They must wait for Longstreet's great division, which had been
detached from the battle to guard against a possible flank attack upon
Richmond. Oh, if Longstreet and his twenty thousand veterans had been
at Chancellorsville! And if Jackson had not fallen just at the moment
when he was about to complete the destruction of Hooker's right wing!
He believed that then they would have annihilated the Army of the
Potomac, that only a few fugitives from it would have escaped across
the Potomac. The time came to him in after years when he often asked
himself would such a result have been a good result for the American
people.

But now he was only a boy, as old, it is tru