However, before we had been in Maryland many hours, one enthusiastic citizen presented Jackson with a gigantic gray mare.
The Marylanders in the corps imparted much of their enthusiasm to the other troops' but we were not long in finding out that if General Lee had hopes that the decimated regiments of his army would be filled by the sons of Maryland he was doomed to a speedy and unqualified disappointment.
The passage of the river by the troops marching in fours, well closed up, the laughing, shouting, and singing, as a brass band in front played "Maryland, my Maryland," was a memorable experience. On the 5th of September Jackson crossed the Potomac at White's Ford, a few miles beyond Leesburg. ON the 3d of September, 1862, the Federal army under General Pope having been confounded, General Lee turned his columns toward the Potomac, with Stonewall Jackson in front.
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