such chivalrous spirits as McLaws, Kershaw, Hampton, and others in the conflicts that were soon to take place.  Never before had an occurrence so excited and enlivened the spirits of the troops as the crossing of the Potomac into the land of our sister, Maryland.  It is said the Crusaders, after months of toil, marching, and fighting, on their way through the plains of Asia Minor, wept when they saw the towering spires of Jerusalem, the Holy City, in the distance; and if ever Lee’s troops could have wept for joy, it was at the crossing of the Potomac.  But we paid dearly for this pleasure in the death of so many thousands of brave men and the loss of so many valuable officers.  General Winder fell at Cedar Mountain, and Jackson’s right hand, the brave Ewell, lost his leg at Manassas.

The army went into camp around Frederick City, Md.  From here, on the 8th, Lee issued his celebrated address to the people of Maryland, and to those of the North generally, telling them of his entry into their country, its cause and purpose; that it was not as a conqueror, or an enemy, but to demand and enforce a peace between the two countries.  He clothed his language in the most conservative and entreating terms, professing friendship for those who would assist him, and protection to life and the property of all.  He enjoined the people, without regard to past differences, to flock to his standard and aid in the defeat of the party and people who were now drenching the country in blood and putting in mourning the people of two nations.  The young men he asked to join his ranks as soldiers of a just and honorable cause.  Of the old he asked their sympathies and prayers.  To the President of the Confederate States he also wrote a letter, proposing to him that he should head his armies, and, as the chieftain of the nation, propose a peace to the authorities at Washington from the very threshold of their Capital.  But both failed of the desired effect.  The people of the South had been led to believe that Maryland was anxious to cast her destinies with those of her sister States, that all her sympathies were with the people of the South, and that her young men were anxious and only awaiting the opportunity to join the ranks as soldiers under Lee.  But these ideas and promises were all delusions, for the people we saw along the route remained passive spectators and disinterested witnesses to the great evolutions now taking place.  What the people felt on the “eastern shore” is not known; but the acts of those between the Potomac and Pennsylvania above Washington indicated but little sympathy with the Southern cause; and what enlistments were made lacked the proportions needed to swell Lee’s army to its desired limits.  Lee promised protection and he gave it.  The soldiers to a man seemed to feel the importance of obeying the orders to respect and protect the person and property of those with whom we came in contact.  It was said of this, as well as other campaigns in the North, that “it was conducted with kid gloves on.”