reached the Confederate lines about the time our artillery again
opened up on the Plank Road with a fire that swept everything from
its front. Several of his attendants were killed and others wounded.
The rebels found the utmost difficulty in keeping their men in line
under this tremendous fire. Sentries had to be posted, and great
precautions taken to prevent the troops from giving way. General
Pender recognized Jackson as he was carried past, and complained
of the demoralizing effect of this cannonade, but Jackson replied
sharply and sternly, "You must hold your ground, General Pender."
He was removed to the Wilderness Tavern, and as General Lee was in
some fear that Averell's cavalry, then at Elley's Ford, would make
a dash and capture him, he was sent on to Guiney's Station, on the
Fredericksburg and Richmond Railroad, where he died on the 10th of
May. Whether the rebels killed him, or whether some of his wounds
came from our own troops, the 1st Massachusetts or 73d New York,
who were firing heavily in that direction, is a matter of some
doubt. While leaning over him and expressing his sympathy, A. P.
Hill was also wounded by the fire from a section of Dimick's battery,
posted in advance in the Plank Road,* and the command of his corps
was assigned at his request to the cavalry general, J. E. B. Stuart.

When our artillery fire ceased, Hill's troops took position in
front of the others.

[* Young Dimick was the son of a distinguished general of the
regular army. Though wounded on this occasion he refused to leave
the field. The next day he again sought the post of danger and
was mortally wounded while holding the Plank Road.]

CHAPTER VI.
SICKLES FIGHTS HIS WAY BACK.--ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST CORPS.

Sickles, with his ten thousand men heaped up at Hazel Grove, was
still cut off from the main body and could only communicate with
Hooker's headquarters by means of bypaths and at great risk. The
last orders he received, at 5 P.M., had been to attack Jackson's
right flank and check his advance. He determined to do this and
force his way back, and with the co-operation of Williams' and
Berry's divisions, retake the Plank Road with the bayonet. Ward's
brigade was posted in the front line and Hayman's and Graham's
brigades a hundred yards in rear. A special column, under Colonel
Egan of the 40th New York, was formed on the extreme left. The
muskets were uncapped and at midnight the command moved silently
a