Her people were
Southerners. Their valor in the Revolution was unsurpassed. People
still talked of the Maryland line and its great deeds. Many of the
Marylanders had already come to Lee and Jackson, and now that the
Southern army, led by its famous leaders and crowned with victories,
was on their soil, it was expected that they would pour forward in
thousands, relieved from the fear of Northern armies.
Alarm, deep and intense, spread all through the North. McClellan,
as usual, doubled Lee's numbers but he organized with all speed to meet
him. Dick heard that Lee was already at Frederick, giving his troops a
few days' repose before meeting any enemy who might come. The utmost
confidence reigned in the South.
McClellan marched, but he advanced slowly. The old mystery and
uncertainty about the Southern army returned. It suddenly disappeared
from Frederick, and McClellan became extremely cautious. He had nearly
a hundred thousand men, veterans now, but he believed that Lee had two
hundred thousand.
Colonel Winchester again complained bitterly to Dick, who was a comrade
as well as an aide.
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