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 was strapped to his saddle.