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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson. (search)
Jackson being disabled, as before stated, his corps was placed under command of that indomitable, dashing cavalry general, J. E. B. Stuart, who, under the eye of Lee, forced Hooker back across the Rappahannock river, while A. P. Hill's corps and McLaw's division forced General Sedgewick, with his many army corps, who were moving in the direction of Chancellorsville, in the rear of Lee, across the same river at Bank's ford. At this juncture the fate of our army seemed to hang upon a mere thre way struck Sedgewick's left flank and rear like a tornado, and poured such a torrent of shot and shell, grape and canister into his strongly massed legions as had seldom or never been seen before on any field of battle, while Lee in person, with McLaw's division, and such other troops as he had at hand, moved quickly in Sedgewick's front at Salem Church, piercing his centre. As his (Sedgewick's) left and rear had already suffered severely from Gordon's well-planned and well-executed attack hi