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LIEUTENANT-GENERAL THOMAS -JONATHAN JACKSON, C. S. A. FROM A PHOTOGRAPHTAKEN IN WINCHESTER, VA. , IN 1862.
The place here mentioned as Chancellor’s was also known as Dowdall’savern. It was the farm of the Rev. Melzi Chancellor, two miles west ofhancellorsville, and the Federal force found here and at Talley’s, a milearther west, was the Eleventh Corps, under General Howard . General Fitzwith cavalry scouts, had advanced until he had view of the position of°Ward’s corps, and found them unsuspicious of attack,teaching the Orange Plank road, General Jackson himself rode with Fitz0 e to reconnoiter the position of Howard , and then sent the Stonewallu gade of Virginia troops, under Brigadier-General Paxton, to hold the| >0lI| t where the Germaima Plank road obliquely enters the Orange road.
e ading the main column of his force farther on the Brock road to the oldj Uril pike, the head of the column turned sharply eastward toward Chancel-Grille, [See maps, pp. 158, 191.] About a mile had been passed, when heted and began the disposition of his forces to attack Howard . Rodes’sVision, at the head of the column, was thrown into line of battle, with Col-°U’s forming the second line and A. P. Hill ’s the third, while the artilleryWilder Colonel Stapleton Crutchfield moved in column on the road, or wasGii'ked in a field on the right. The well-trained skirmishers of Rodes’s
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