for a chance bullet that stunned me. That
bullet cost us thousands of men."

"And the bullets that struck General Jackson will cost us a whole army
corps."

"We hear that they were fired by your own men."

"So they were. A North Carolina company in the darkness took us for the
enemy."

"I don't rejoice over the fall of a great and valiant foe, but whether
Jackson lived or died the result would be the same. I told you long
ago that the forces of the Union could never be beaten in the long run,
and I repeated it to you another time. Now I repeat it once more.
We have lost two great battles here, but you make no progress. We
menace you as much as ever."

"But your newspapers say you're growing very tired. There's no nation
so big that it can't be exhausted."

"But you'll be exhausted first. So long, I see some of our generals
coming out on the bluffs with their glasses. I suppose we mustn't
appear too friendly."

"Good-bye, Mr. Shepard. We've lost Jackson, but we've many a good man
yet. I think our next great battle will be farther north."

They had not spoken as enemies, but as friends who held different views
upon an important point, and now they rowed back peacefully, each to his
own shore.

With the return of Longstreet, the Southern army was raised to greater
numbers than at Chancellorsville. With Stuart's matchless cavalry it
numbered nearly eighty thousand men, most of them veterans, and a cry
for invasion came from the South. What was the use of victories like
Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, if they merely left matters where
they were? The fighting hitherto had been done on Southern soil.
The South alone had felt the presence of war. It was now time for the
North to have a taste of it.

Harry and his comrades heard this cry, and it seemed to them to be full
of truth. They ought to strike straight at the heart of the enemy.
When their victorious brigades threatened Philadelphia and New York,
the two great commercial centers of the North, then the Northern people
would not take defeat so easily. It would be a different matter
altogether when a foe appeared at their own doors.

Rumors that the invasion would be undertaken soon spread thick and fast.
Harry saw his general, Lee now in place of Jackson, in daily conference
with his most trusted lieutenants. Longstreet and A. P. Hill were there
often, and one day Harry saw riding toward headquarters a man who had
only one leg and who w