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Chancellorsville and Gettysburg

CHAPTER V
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General Pender recognized Jackson as he was carried past, and complained of the demoralizing effect of this cannonade, but Jackson replied sharply and sternly, "You must hold your ground, General Pender." He was removed to the Wilderness Tavern, and as General Lee was in some fear that Averell's cavalry, then at Elley's Ford, would make a dash and capture him, he was sent on to Guiney's Station, on the Fredericksburg and Richmond Railroad, where he died on the 10th of May.

Whether the rebels killed him, or whether some of his wounds came from our own troops, the 1st Massachusetts or 73d New York, who were firing heavily in that direction, is a matter of some doubt.

While leaning over him and expressing his sympathy, A.P.
Hill was also wounded by the fire from a section of Dimick's battery, posted in advance in the Plank Road,* and the command of his corps was assigned at his request to the cavalry general, J.E.B.Stuart.
When our artillery fire ceased, Hill's troops took position in front of the others.
[* Young Dimick was the son of a distinguished general of the regular army.

Though wounded on this occasion he refused to leave the field.

The next day he again sought the post of danger and was mortally wounded while holding the Plank Road.].


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