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as detaching his cavalry and the want of cooperation by Sedgwick. Besides the prisoners captured at Chancellorsville, we obtained not less than thirty thousand small arms, and some artillery, whilst the field was literally covered with blankets and overcoats, too few of which, unfortunately for our now suffering soldiers, were saved by the Government, but were appropriated by the battle-field plunderers. It is a little singular that Jackson, the first General of the Stonewall brigade, and Paxton, its then commander, should have fallen on this field. Shortly after the battle of Chancellorsville, Gen. Longerr who had been absent near Suffolk, returned to this army. The inquiry on all hands was in regard to the successor of Jackson. About the 20th of May the President commissioned both Maj.-Gens. R. S. Ewell and A. P. Hill as Lieutenant Generals in the Army of Northern Virginia. To each of these Generals a corps was assigned, consisting of three divisions, Gen. Longstreet, for