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Todd (search for this): chapter 21
while in person he led Fitz Lee's brigade across the historic Raccoon ford of the Rapidan, and placed his cavalry in position to protect Lee's left. This brought him into conflict with the Federal cavalry advance on the morning of the 30th, near Todd's tavern, not far from Anderson's left at Tabernacle church. Meade's corps of the Federal army, the Fifth, reached Chancellorsville during the night of the 29th, and by sunset of the 30th, Hooker had there concentrated 50,000 men, while 18,000 al cavalry. By early dawn of the next morning, Jackson sent his topographical engineer, Capt. Jed. Hotchkiss, to Catherine furnace to ascertain whether there was a shorter road around Hooker's front and right to his rear, than the one by way of Todd's tavern. Informed, at an early hour, of the shortest way, Jackson, after a short conference with Lee, in which he secured permission to take his whole corps with him in his flank movement, promptly marched, first southward, then southwestward, t
Mott (search for this): chapter 21
rength up to nearly 134,000 soldiers, when, toward the last of April, he made ready to cross the Rappahannock and attack Lee's 63,000 veterans. Jackson held the front of Lee's right, from Hamilton's crossing down to Port Royal, with the 33,000 well-tried men of the Second corps. Of the two divisions of Longstreet that remained with Lee, McLaws held the front, from Jackson's left to opposite Banks' ford, with 8,000 men; Anderson's 8,000 extended McLaws' left well toward Chancellorsville (to Mott's run), while Stuart's 2,700 cavalrymen watched the fords of the Rappahannock up to the Orange & Alexandria railroad crossing. Hooker had opposed Burnside's plan of campaign against Lee, and he now essayed to make trial of his own. He proposed to make a great show of having adopted Burnside's plan, by sending Sedgwick across the Rappahannock, at and below Fredericksburg, with three army corps, thus hoping to detain Lee in front of that desolated city while he, with four other army corps, m
Sykes (search for this): chapter 21
and Chancellorsville, and the issue of battle was joined in the fields along the roads and in the dense intervening forest. Alexander quickly placed one battery from his battalion in front, on the plank road, and sent one accompanying the skirmishers. Lee came up at about this time, and he and Jackson, riding side by side, followed in the line on the left. With wild cheers for these two trusted and beloved commanders, the Confederates rushed forward and drove back the oncoming Federals. Sykes' division of Meade's corps, advancing on the turnpike, was flanked by Jackson and repulsed in front by McLaws; while Anderson turned back to Chancellorsville Slocum's Twelfth corps, with loss, and Hooker's initial action-movement sought protection behind Sickles' line of 18,000 men that held the front of the fields at Chancellorsville. Lee's skirmishers followed until they found themselves confronted by formidable intrenchments of logs, protected by. abatis, in the forest in front. Hooke
D. E. Sickles (search for this): chapter 21
entrated 50,000 men, while 18,000 more, under Sickles, were near at hand. Sedgwick, with his 40,00tial action-movement sought protection behind Sickles' line of 18,000 men that held the front of th Stuart and Fitz Lee, protecting his flanks. Sickles, from his elevated position in Hooker's souththrowing out a brigade to protect his flank. Sickles advanced on this and captured a Georgia regimfter him; but Lee turned Anderson's guns upon Sickles and checked his movement. Sickles then calleSickles then called for reinforcements, and late in the afternoon he sent a brigade to the furnace; but it was then t Near the time of Stuart's taking command, Sickles reached the vicinity of Hazel Grove, a farm ainfantry and light guns, that neither Lee nor Sickles had heard the noise of Jackson's battle untilthey were driven back by Hill's skirmishers. Sickles then turned the larger part of his command ag in the division of Williams and the corps of Sickles. Within these two Federal wings were 37,000 [2 more...]
D. H. Hill (search for this): chapter 21
ank road, thus traversing nearly the entire front of Hooker's position, and turning his right. He then formed his command in three lines of battle, with Rodes (D. H. Hill's division) in front, supported by Colston (Trimble's division), and he in turn by part of A. P. Hill's division. When the Orange road was reached, Paxton's St eagerly and swiftly marching around his right flank. The morning sun of the 2d of May was barely visible when Jackson began his march with Rodes, commanding D. H. Hill's old division in front, followed by Colston and A. P. Hill; 26,000 war and camp hardened veterans led by Jackson in person, with four regiments of cavalry, und of May, Lee sent a message to President Davis, saying: We have again to thank God for a great victory. On Monday, May 4th, leaving Trimble's (Colston's) and D. H. Hill's (Rodes') divisions in front of the formidable works at Chancellorsville, behind which Hooker had sought safety, Lee in person led Anderson's brigades to Salem
Pender (search for this): chapter 21
tions to assault Hooker's last-held position. He sent the writer to reconnoiter Hooker's right and ascertain whether his flank could be turned in that direction. Just at dawn, on the morning of the 6th, as Lee was about to order an advance, General Pender came galloping to his field headquarters under a tent fly at Fairview cemetery, and informed him that his skirmishers had advanced and found Hooker's gone. In surprise, he exclaimed: Why, General Pender! That is what you young men always doGeneral Pender! That is what you young men always do. You allow these people to get away. I tell you what to do, but you don't do it. Then, with an impatient wave of the hand, he exclaimed: Go after them and damage them all you can. A heavy rain (such as almost invariably followed great battles in Virginia) had set in during the preceding night, and under cover of that, and concealed by his formidable intrenchments and the unbroken forest through which the roads led to the United States ford, Hooker had safely withdrawn his army over the ponto
John Daniel Imboden (search for this): chapter 21
Chapter 21: The Chancellorsville campaign and death of Jackson. During the winter of 1862-63 and early spring of 1863, Stuart, by frequent raids across the Rappahannock, kept the Federal cavalry busy, protecting Burnside's right and rear, while in the Valley and in the Appalachian region, Imboden and Jones broke the Federal communications with the west by the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. In one of his humorous moods, on the 3d of March, Lee wrote to his wife: We are up to our eyes in mud now, and have but little comfort. Mr. Hooker looms up very large over the river. He has two balloons up in the day and one at night. I hope he is gratified at what he sees. Your cousin, Fitz Lee, beat up his quarters the other day with about 400 of his cavalry, and advanced within four miles of Falmouth, carrying off 150 prisoners, with their horses, arms, etc. The day after he recrossed the Rappahannock they sent all their cavalry after him. . . but the bird had flown. . . . I
A. S. Pendleton (search for this): chapter 21
n back by Hill's skirmishers. Sickles then turned the larger part of his command against the flank of Hooker's retreating Twelfth corps, and entered into a fight with Slocum's men, of his own army, claiming that in this fight with his associates he had recaptured the plank road and that his men had inflicted the fatal wound on Jackson. After Jackson had been removed to the field hospital and his arm had been amputated, and before the arrival of Stuart, after a consultation with Adjt.-Gen. A. S. Pendleton, Captain Hotchkiss, guided by a young Doctor Chancellor, of the vicinage, by a wide detour to the southward, rode to Lee, informed him of the position of the Second corps, and of what had happened up to the time of his leaving. Lee, thus informed, gave orders for Stuart to incline his lines to the right, while he would incline those under his immediate command to the left, and thus form a connected line of battle, which would, on the morning of the 3d, make a front attack on Hooke
Joseph Hooker (search for this): chapter 21
es in mud now, and have but little comfort. Mr. Hooker looms up very large over the river. He has s tried lines of defense toward Richmond, when Hooker's reunited army would, with overwhelming numbedy to throw the weight of his whole corps upon Hooker's extended and weak right flank. Jackson lecould look over the intervening forest and see Hooker's great army stretching away to the eastward, hort time fell upon How-, ard's corps, holding Hooker's right, which, unconscious even of the near pe superior numbers that Jackson hurled against Hooker's flanked line, which he speedily crumpled up , May 3d, found Lee ready for an assault upon Hooker in his intrenched position around Chancellorsvoaches to Chancellorsville from the eastward. Hooker's lines were nearly those he held the night beight, were the 14,000 of McLaws and Anderson. Hooker's right was held by the 23,000 men in the divigan the battle at early dawn by moving against Hooker's right, mainly north of the plank road and ag[43 more...]
P. H. Colquitt (search for this): chapter 21
g the turnpike, with Jackson's men, and by sections of twos poured canister into the retreating Federals. Nothing could stand against the superior numbers that Jackson hurled against Hooker's flanked line, which he speedily crumpled up and drove back toward Chancellorsville, but two miles away. Many prisoners were taken, and it looked as though the whole Federal army would be routed by the flood of fugitives, followed by Jackson's fierce soldiery flushed with victory. At this juncture, Colquitt, commanding Rodes' right brigade in the woods south of the turnpike, thought he discovered a Federal force on his flank that required him to halt and face southward; and thus was held back, for nearly an hour, Jackson's forward movement, giving Schurz's division, which he would have struck in flank had he continued to advance, time to escape; but Howard's corps was completely wrecked, and all opposition was speedily brushed away as Jackson's men, his lines of battle indiscriminately mixed i
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