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nly position where it could have held its ground. At Groveton, when he received the news that the Federal left wing was retreating on Centreville, across his front the order for attack was issued almost before he had read the dispatch. At Chancellorsville, when General Fitzhugh Lee showed him the enemy's left wing dispersed, and unsuspecting, he simply turned to his courier, and said: Let the column cross the road. and his plan of battle was designed with the rapidity as Wellington's at Salamanca. Lee called Jackson his right arm, and wrote him when he was wounded at Chancellorsville: Could I have dictated events I should have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead. I had the privilege once of hearing General Lee, in his office in Lexington, Va., pronounce a glowing eulogy on Jackson, in which he said, with far more than his accustomed warmth of feeling: He never failed me. Why, if I had had Stonewall Jackson at Gettysburg I should have w