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The Daily Dispatch: May 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], The great victory. (search)
en behind the enemy begun on Saturday. According to General Lee the enemy was on that day, under the combined attack of Jackson in the rear and Longstreet in front, driven to within one mile of Chancellorsville, probably a distance of four miles. T that of "Chancellorsville" or "Wilderness." The latter would not be inappropriate. It was "out of the Wilderness" that Jackson drove the Yankees: equally merciful beasts of prey and plunder choose the Wilderness for a hiding place from which to deks and herds. To seek them there and end their depredations is the part of the sagacious, practiced, and brave hunter. Jackson is just such a hunter of the hordes which are infesting the homes, the garners, and fields of the South. He crashed upokson is just such a hunter of the hordes which are infesting the homes, the garners, and fields of the South. He crashed upon them in the Wilderness, killing and wounding and pursuing them. Thus "Jackson drove the Yankees out of the Wilderness."
The Daily Dispatch: May 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], The battles on the Rappahannock. (search)
Rappahannock in its vicinity. (Signed,) R. E. Lee, General. Of the details of these brilliant victories we have not yet been advised, but the public will not be kept long in suspense. A letter has been received by a relative of General Jackson, stating that the left arm of that able and brave officer has been amputated, and that his condition is favorable. There is cause for devout thankfulness that he will be spared to his country. Brigadier-General Paxton, who was killed at Chancellorsville, was the only surviving officer of the old Stonewall Brigade, except Gen. Jackson, and Col. Grigsby, who resigned sometime ago. The ambulance committee, of this city, started last night for the scene of action, and it is hoped that, ere this, our wounded men have received the attention of which they so much stood in need. The Yankees have been "driven over the river," (says Gen. Lee.) and with that, we suppose, terminates Fighting Joe Hooker's first grand movement "on to
The Daily Dispatch: May 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], The battles on the Rappahannock. (search)
Suspicious Darkey --A Hanover free negro, named Jas. E. Jackson, has been committed to Castle Thunder by order of Gen. Pryor, on suspicion of being the party who burned the Meadow Bridges at the command of the Yankees, and also for piloting them about the country. Jackson was found clothed in a Federal uniform. He accounted for its possession by saying that they captured him and made him put on the coat. Suspicious Darkey --A Hanover free negro, named Jas. E. Jackson, has been committed to Castle Thunder by order of Gen. Pryor, on suspicion of being the party who burned the Meadow Bridges at the command of the Yankees, and also for piloting them about the country. Jackson was found clothed in a Federal uniform. He accounted for its possession by saying that they captured him and made him put on the coat.