96 NortH Carorina Troops, 1861-’65.

complished officers, always thought that @enerals Jackson
and Hill were both wounded by his command.

After the wounding of these two Generals, General Heth
assumed command of Hill’s Division, countermanded the
order for an advance, and directed me to form the whole of
my brigade on the right of the plank road. We were the
only troops in line on the right of the road until after we had
repulsed Sickles’ formidable midnight attack, in which we
captured a few prisoners and the colors of the Third Maine
Regiment. MeGowan’s Brigade then prolonged our right,
and we rested on our arms until the next morning. I did
not see General Stuart that night, but understood he did not
arrive to take command of Jackson’s Corps until after my
brigade had repulsed Sickles’ midnight attack.

On the morning of the 3d we were ordered to make a direct
attack upon the enemy’s works, which were composed of logs
hastily thrown together the night previous, in our front and
on the slope of the hill facing the Chancellorsville hill. We
carried the works, but could not hold them on account of the
concentrated, murderous artillery fire from the Chancellors-
ville hill, under which the enemy threw forward fresh in-
fantry. The brigade that was to have supported us did not
come to our assistance, and before General Ramseur (then a
Brigadier), could get up with his North Carolinians, we were
driven back with a loss of over nine hundred out of about
twenty-seven hundred carried into action. Of the thirteen
field officers of my command that participated in this charge,
only one—Barry—was left for duty. General Ramseur
would go forward, though I advised him against it. His
command reached the same works, but had to retire with a
similar terrible loss.

The enemy was finally driven from the Chancellorsville
House by the Confederates carrying the salient to our right,
where General Stuart, in command of Jackson’s Corps, elic-
ited loud shouts of admiration from the infantry as he in per-

son gallantly rushed them over the works upon Hooker’s re-
treating columns.

James H. Lawe.
AvBurRN, ALA.,

2 May, 1901.

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THE WOUNDING OF JACKSON.

2 MAY, 1865.

By SPIER WHITAKER, ApsuTant TuirTy-THirp Reciment N. C. T.

Early on the morning of 2 May, 1863, Gen. Jackson marched
by the Furnace and Brock roads and reached the old turnpike
about three miles in the rear of Chancellorsville, at 4 p.m.
As the different divisions arrived they were formed at right
angles to the road, Rodes’ in front, Trimble’s under Colston
in the second, and A. P. Hill, marching down the turnpike
in column of fours in the third line, with the Thirty-third
North Carolina, of Lane’s Brigade, at the head of the column.
At 6p. m. the advance was ordered. The enemy were Jeep
by surprise and fled after a brief resistance. Rodes’ men
pushed forward with great vigor and enthusiasm, followed
closely by the second and third lines. Position after posi-
tion was carried, the guns captured, and every effort of the
enemy to rally defeated by the impetuous rush of our troops.
In the ardor of pursuit through the thick and tangled woods,
the first and second lines at last became mingled, and moved
on together as one. The flight and pursuit continued until
our advance was arrested by the abatis in front of the line of
works near the central position at Chancellorsville. It was
now dark, and General Jackson ordered the third line, un-
der General A. P. Hill, to advance to the front and relieve the
troops of Rodes and Colston, who were completely blended
and in such disorder from their rapid advance through intri-
cate woods and over broken ground, that it was necessary to
reform them. Lane’s Brigade was formed across the road,
the Eighteenth and Twenty-eighth on the left, the Seventh
and Thirty-seventh on the right, and the Thirty-third in skir-
mish line in front of the entire Brigade, Colonel Avery being
at the center of his line, at the road. It was so dark and the
woods so thick that the men could not be properly located or

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