dinner,
but they all seemed to think it was a good joke on me.

Quakers, it must be remembered, were not as a rule in sympathy with the
secession movement, which greatly intensified the discomfort of my
position. My young friend, however, although a member of that society,
never deserted me, and sometime afterward became more to me than a
friend; she has been faithful ever since, and is now sitting by me as I
write these lines.

Now I must go back to war scenes.

I cannot remember, of course, just the day, but while we were busy
gathering up these stragglers we could distinctly hear the booming of
the guns that told us the two armies had met and that there was heavy
fighting on Maryland soil.

The first sounds came from toward Harper's Ferry, and we soon afterward
learned the result.

Jackson had been detached from the main army, had surrounded and
captured Harper's Ferry, taking 13,000 prisoners and many army supplies.
Among the prisoners was A.W. Green of New York, who afterward became
pastor of my church, St. John's, corner Madison avenue and Laurens
street, Baltimore, Md.

Mr. Green says that when the prisoners were all lined up, Jackson rode
along their front and tried to comfort them as best he could. He said,
"Men, this is the fate of war; it is you today, it may be us tomorrow."
After paroling his prisoners, Jackson hurried to rejoin Lee, who was
being hotly pressed by McClellan at Antietam. Lee's united forces at
this time could not have numbered over 40,000 men, while McClellan, who
was still in command of the Union army, had a force of over 100,000.

McClellan made the attack, was repulsed with terrible loss, but the
North claimed the victory, because Lee retired during the second night
after the battle and re-crossed the Potomac, falling back to Winchester,
where he was reinforced by the stragglers who had been gathering there
for two weeks or more.

This series of battles, beginning with Richmond in the spring and ending
at Antietam in the early fall, had so exhausted the armies that both
sides were glad to take a rest. They had been marching and fighting from
early spring all through the summer, and were thoroughly exhausted.

LEE'S ARMY IN A TRAP.

We have all heard of the famous lost dispatch that was picked up in the
streets of Frederick, Md., after the place had been evacuated by the
Confederates. It was called "Special Order No. 191." A copy of this
order was sent by Gen. Lee to each o