as a soldier shine as brilliantly as they did in
this battle. To quote his own language, "We had 120,000 men, Lee 60,000.
Yet Lee handled his forces so skillfully that whenever he attacked he
did it with a superior force, and in this way he overwhelmed our army
and compelled its retreat, after suffering terrible losses not only in
dead and wounded, but in prisoners."

But the Confederates also suffered a tremendous loss at
Chancellorsville. Just at the moment when he was about to gather the
fruit of his victory, which might have resulted in the surrender of
Hooker's army, or the greater portion of it, Stonewall Jackson was fired
on by his own men, mortally wounded, and died a few days afterwards.

The following account of the wounding of Jackson, as related by an
eye-witness, will be of interest to the reader:

It was 9 o'clock at night. There was a lull in the battle, and Jackson's
line had become somewhat disorganized by the men gathering in groups and
discussing their brilliant victory. Jackson, noticing the confusion,
rode up and down the line, saying, "Men, get into line, get into line; I
need your help for a time. This disorder must be corrected."

He had just received information that a large body of fresh troops from
the Union army was advancing to retake an important position that it had
lost. Jackson had gone 100 yards in front of his own line to get a
better view of the enemy's position. The only light that he had to guide
him was that furnished by the moon. He was attended by half a dozen
orderlies and several of his staff officers, when he was suddenly
surprised by a volley of musketry in his front. The bullets began
whistling about them, and struck several horses. This was the advance
guard of the Federal lines. Jackson, seeing the danger, turned and rode
rapidly back toward his own line. As he approached, the Confederate
troops, mistaking them for the enemy's cavalry, stooped and delivered a
deadly fire. So sudden was this volley, and so near at hand, that every
horse which was not shot down recoiled from it in panic and turned to
rush back, bearing his rider toward the approaching enemy. Several fell
dead on the spot, and more were wounded, among them Gen. Jackson. His
right hand was penetrated by a ball, his left was lacerated by another,
and the same arm was broken a little below the shoulder by a third ball,
which not only crushed the bone, but severed the main artery. His horse
dashed, panic-stric