But Banks with his great army would then march down it as if on parade.
Harry heard one morning that a new man was put in command of the Southern forces in Northern Virginia.

Robert Edward Lee was his name, and it was a good name, too.

He was the son of that famous Light Horse Harry Lee who was a favorite of Washington in the Revolution.

Already an elderly man, he was sober and quiet, but the old West Pointers passed the word through Jackson's army that he was full of courage and daring.
Harry felt the stimulus almost at once.

A fresh wind seemed to be blowing down the Valley of Virginia.