You'll have something like two hundred thousand near neighbors." The sun set and darkness swept over the Wilderness, but it was still lighted at many points by the flash of the firing and, after that ceased, by the campfires.

Jackson's advance was at an end for the time.
He was fully in touch with his enemy and understood him.

Hooker had retreated as far as he would go.

When the fog cleared away in the morning the men in the captive balloons had informed him that heavy Southern columns were marching toward Chancellorsville.

He was sure now that the full strength of the Southern army was before him, and he continued to fortify the Chancellor House and the plateau of Hazel Grove.