Lee beat Hooker, in detail, and forced him back across the river. Then the old Puritan died. At the end his mind wandered, and he thought he was again commanding in battle, and his last words were.

Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade."

Thus perished Stonewall Jackson, one of the ablest of soldiers and one of the most upright of men, in the last of his many triumphs.

THE CHARGE AT GETTYSBURG

For the Lord

On the whirlwind is abroad;
In the earthquake he has spoken;

He has smitten with his thunder
The iron walls asunder,

And the gates of brass are broken!

With bray of the trumpet,

And roll of the drum,

And keen ring of bugle

The cavalry come:

Sharp clank the steel scabbards,

The bridle-chains ring,

And foam from red nostrils

The wild chargers fling!

Tramp, tramp o'er the greensward
That quivers below,
Scarce held by the curb bit

The fierce horses go!
And the grim-visaged colonel,

With ear-rending shout,
Peals forth to the squadrons
The order, "Trot Out"!

Whittier.

-Francis A. Durivage.

THE CHARGE AT GETTYSBURG

HE battle of Chancellorsville marked the zenith of Confederate good fortune. Immediately afterward, in June, 1863, Lee led the victorious army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania. The South was now the invader, not the invaded, and its heart beat proudly with hopes of success; but these hopes went down in bloody wreck on July 4, when word was sent to the world that the high valor of Virginia had failed at last on the field of Gettysburg, and that in the far West Vicksburg had been taken by the army of the "silent soldier."

At Gettysburg Lee had under him some seventy thousand men, and his opponent, Meade, about ninety thousand. Both armies were composed mainly of seasoned veterans, trained to the highest point by campaign after campaign and battle after battle; and there was nothing to choose between them as to the fighting power of the rank and file. The Union army was the larger, yet