It was a sort of terrible dream, in which one was possessed of the single idea to get to a certain place.

It was not till at last we swept across the open ground down to the house, that I seemed to take any distinct notice of what was going on around me.

Then, for the first time, the exulting shouts of the men, and the long lines advancing at the double, woke me up to the fact that we had gained one of the most wonderful victories in history, and had driven an army of four or five times our own strength from a position that they believed they had made impregnable." The defeat of Hooker for a time put a stop to any further advance against Richmond from the North.

The Federal troops whose term of service was up returned home, and it was months before all the efforts of the authorities of Washington could place the army in a condition to make a renewed advance.

But the Confederates had also suffered heavily.
A third of the force with which Jackson had attacked had fallen, and their loss could not be replaced, as the Confederates were forced to send everyone they could raise to the assistance of the armies in the West, where Generals Banks and Grant were carrying on operations with great success against them.