Then we rode straight toward the north, exchanging shots here and there with Northern pickets.

We went across Maryland and clear up into Pennsylvania, a hundred miles it must have been, I think, and at a town called Chambersburg we got a great supply of Yankee stores, including five hundred horses, which came in mighty handy, I can tell you.

I got Bucephalus there.

He's a fine steed, too, I can tell you.
He was intended to carry some fat Pennsylvania colonel or major, and instead he has me for a rider, a thinner and consequently a lighter man.
I haven't heard him expressing any sorrow over the exchange." "What did you do after you got the remounts ?" asked Harry.
"We began to curve then.

We passed a town called Gettysburg, and we went squarely behind the Union army.