There was not one among all Stuart's officers more daring than he, and he was in his element now, as they rode northward into the enemy's country.

He told how the troopers had followed Milroy's fugitives so closely that they barely escaped across the Potomac, and then how the Unionists of Maryland had fled before the gray horsemen.
Sherburne did not exaggerate.

Hitherto the war had never really touched the soil of any of the free states, but now it became apparent that Pennsylvania, the second state of the Union in population, would be invaded.

Excitement seized Harrisburg, its capital, which Lee's army might reach at any time.

People poured over the bridges of the Susquehanna and thousands of men labored night and day to fortify the city.
Jenkins, a Southern cavalry leader, was the first to enter Pennsylvania, his men riding into the village of Greencastle, and proceeding thence to Chambersburg.