comrades to remember, but youth cannot mourn long. They were there in
ease and plenty again, under a commander who had led them to nothing but
victory. They heard many reports that Burnside was marching and that he
might soon cross the Rappahannock, and they heard also that Jackson's
advance to Winchester with his corps had created the deepest alarm in
Washington. The North did not trust Burnside as a commander-in-chief,
and it had great cause to fear Jackson. Even the North itself openly
expressed admiration for his brilliant achievements.

Reports came to Winchester that an attack by Jackson on Washington was
feared. Maryland expected another invasion. Pennsylvania, remembering
the daring raid which Stuart had made through Chambersburg, one of her
cities, picking up prisoners on the way, dreaded the coming of a far
mightier force than the one Stuart had led. At the capital itself it
was said that many people were packing, preparatory to fleeing into the
farther North.

But Harry and his comrades thought little of these things for a few
days. It was certainly pleasant there in the little Virginia town.
The people of Winchester and those of the country far and wide
delighted to help and honor them. Food was abundant and the crisp cold
strengthened and freshened the blood in their veins. The fire and
courage of Jackson's men had never risen higher.

Jackson himself seemed to be thinking but little of war for a day or
two. His inseparable companion was the Presbyterian minister,
Dr. Graham, to whom he often said that he thought it was the noblest and
grandest thing in the world to be a great minister. Harry, as his aide,
being invariably near him, was impressed more and more by his
extraordinary mixture of martial and religious fervor. The man who