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The Daily Dispatch: May 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], The "Wilderness" and Chancelloraville. (search)
e attacked with his corps about an hour before sunset, and driving the Eleventh corps of the Federals before him, routed and pushed them nearly to Chancellorsville. His assault was made at the well-known locality of the Wilderness; and this contest will be known in history as "The Battle of the Wilderness." Soon after 9 o'clock at night Gen. Jackson received the wound which caused his death, and about the same time Gen. A. P. Hill, the ranking Major-Gen'l of his corps, was also disabled. Gen. Rodes, whose heroic conduct made him a Major-General on the battle-field, and who succeeded Hill in command, immediately dispatched a messenger to Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, who had proceeded with a detachment of cavalry towards Ely's ford, and on the arrival of that General formally turned over the command to him, with the full approbation of General Hill, whose wounds disabled him from further participation, even by conference, in the battle. It was then too late to renew the battle, and Gen. Stua