The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-04-22
Jackson's onset. 1t was after this check,

Jackson's onset. 1t was alter TINS check,
while reconnoitering in front ofhis troops,
that this noted soldier received, from his
own lines, the volley which inflicted on
him mortal wound.
A midnight attack was made by Sickles
upon Jackson. Sickles's claim that he
drove the enemy back 10 Dowdall's is
scarcely substantiated. The attack had
no particular result. Sickles regained
once more his old position at Hazel
Grove, which he held until daylight
Sunday morning, when he was ordered
back to Charlottesville by Hooker. The
latter seemed unaware how important
this height might prove in his own, how
dangerous in Lees hands. For as his
line here made salient, it behooved him
to strengthen it by just such height, or
else to abandon this line of defence.
On Sunday morning at daylight Stuart,
who succeeded Jackson, ranged his 10000
men opposite the Fairview crest and sup
ported them by batteries on this same
Hazel Grove. f'airview was crowned by
our artillery and defended by about an
equal infantry force on the next ridge
below, consisting of the entire Sd corps
and Williams of the 18th corps. Ander.
son and McLaws, with $1,000 men, still
confronted Geary and Hancock with
$4,000. Reynolds had arrived during
the night, but was posted on the extreme
right, away from the scene of actual
hostilities. No other troops were brought
into action. Thus the superior tactics OF
the enemy enabled him to outnumber us
at every point Of attack, while an equal
number of available Union troops lay
upon their arms close by, witnessing the
unneeded slaughter of their comrades.
The attack of the ConfederaLes began
shortly after daylight, with Jackson" for
watchword, and was gallant in the
extreme. Anderson pushed in on our
left centre as Staurt did on the right
centre, both contendipg for the Chancel-
lor House, which barred their possession
of the turnpike. No praise is too high
for the staunchness of the attack or the
stubbornness of the defence; but after
heavy fighting during the entire forenoon,
the Army of the Potomac yielded to the
Confederate pressure and retired to a
new line already prepared by its engi-
neers, and which had its apex at White
House. Time does not allow the barest
details of this struggle to be entered
upon. Suffice it to say that the loss Of
the 3D., 18th and I'd corps of 1000, 5000
and 1000 respectively effectually gauges
the bitterness Of the contest. The Con-
federate loss was, if anything, higher
than ours during this Sunday morning.
Lee was reforming for an assault upon
our new line when rumors from Freder.
icksburg diverted hi. attention.
Col. Dodge also gives the reasons which
induced the Federal commanders after
the battle to retire beyond the Kappa.
hammock. The total loss of the Army OF
the Potomac was II 200: of the Army OF
Northern Virginia 12,9O0.
At the conclusion of his lecture Col.
Dodge said The direct result of Chan
cellorsyille was the second invasion Of
the Northern States by Lee, which cul.
minated in the defeat of the Army OF
Northern Virginia two months later. on
the hills of Gettysburg.
Tried by the rule Of brilliant success
against vast odds, Lees work in this
campaign is scarcely open to criticism.
The hero of the campaign is Thomas j.
Jackson, the most able lieutenant of our
civil uar