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and about 170 pieces of field-artillery. The divisions of Anderson andMcLaws had been sent from Fredericksburg to meet Hooker’s advance fromCliancellorsville; Anderson on Wednesday, and McLaws (except Barksdale’ sbrigade, left with Early) on Thursday. At the Tabernacle Church, about fommiles east of Cliancellorsville, the opposing forces met and brisk skirmishingbegan. On Friday, Jackson, reaching Anderson’s position, took command ofthe Confederate advance, and urged on his skirmish line under Brigadim'"General Kamseur with great vigor. How the muskets rattled along a frontof a mile or two, across the unfenced fields, and through the woodlands-What spirit was imparted to the line, and what cheers rolled along its length*when Jackson, and then Lee himself, appeared riding abreast of the line alongthe Plank road! Slowly but steadily the line advanced, until at night-fall alFederal jackets and skirmishers were driven back upon the body of HookeC 3force at Cliancellorsville.

Here we reached a jioint, a mile and a half from Hooker’s lines, whei ea road turns down to the left toward the old Catherine Furnace [see map)j). 158]; and here at the fork of the roads General Lee and General Jack'son spent the night, resting on the pine straw, curtained only by the cloS®shadow of the jiine forest. A little after night-fall I was sent by GenO[' aLee upon an errand to General A. P. Hill , on the old stone turnpike a mil 6or two north; and returning some time later with information of matters ()1 |our right, I found General Jackson retired to rest, and General Lee sleejiing a