September 6, 1862---"I signed up to protect my home, not invade foreign soil."

SEPTEMBER 6, 1862:        

The vanguard of the Confederate Army reaches Frederick, Maryland. Robert E. Lee, who had recently fallen from his horse Traveller, had broken hands, and was about to get another unpleasant surprise when the citizens of slave-State Maryland rebuffed his soldiers. The Rebel commanders suffered still yet another surprise when groups of men under their command mutiny, refusing to invade the United States. “I signed up to protect my home,” says one, “not invade foreign soil.” Foreign soil or not, Lee allows most of these men to return to Virginia without penalty.