They had not been called Jackson's Foot Cavalry for nothing.

They were proud of the name, and they meant to deserve it more thoroughly than ever.
"I take it," said Dalton to Harry, "that some change has occurred in the Northern plans.

The Army of the Potomac must be marching along in a new line." "So do I.

The battle will be fought in lower country." "And we will be with Lee and Longstreet in a day or two." "So it looks." Jackson stopped twice, a full day each time, for rest, but at the end of the eighth day, including the two for rest, he had driven his men one hundred and twenty miles over mountains and across rivers.

They also passed through cold and heavy snow, but they now found themselves in lower country at the village of Orange Court House.