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general himself, and in everything confirmed and completed hy those whoAVei ' e eye-witnesses and near companions.
When Jackson had reached the point where his line now crossed the turu-Jhke, scarcely a mile west of Chancellorsville, and not half a mile from a lineFederal troops, he had found his front line unfit for the farther and vigor-0l is advance he desired, hy reason of the irregular character of the figlit-111 A now right, now left, and because of the dense thickets, through which itWas impossible to preserve alignment. Division commanders found it morea Hd more difficult as the twilight deepened to hold their broken brigadeshand. Regretting the necessity of1 Sieving the troops in front, Generalackson had ordered A. P. Hill ’s divis-l0 H, his third and reserve line, to bePieced in front. While this change wasein g effected, impatient and anxious, theSeneral rode forward on the turnpike,
Glowed bv two or three of his staff andnumber of couriers and signal ser-vants. He passed the swampy depres-* l0u and began the ascent of the hill°Ward Chancellorsville, when he camea Pon a line of the Federal infantry lying° |J their arms. Fired at by one or twoGuskets (two musket-balls from the en-whistled over my head as I came0 the front), he turned and came back°Ward his line, upon the side of the road£° his left. As he rode near to the Con-nate troops, just placed in positiona ud ignorant that he was in the front, thee t company began firing to the front, and two of his party fell from theirpaddles dead—Captain Boswell, of the Engineers , and Sergeant Cunliffe, of the, W la l Corps. Spurring his horse across the road to his right, he was met bysecond volley from the right company of Pender’s North Carolina brigade,nder this volley, when not two rods from the troops, the general receivedV( ‘ e balls at the same instant. One penetrated the palm of his light handail< ^ H r a,s cut out that night from the back of his hand. A second passedG‘°Un(l the wrist of the left arm and out through the left hand. A third ballpassed through the left arm half-way from shoulder to elbow. The large bone^ ^ le upper arm was splintered to the elbow-joint, and the wound bled_ e Gy. His horse turned quickly from the fire, through the thick bushesj llc h swept the cap from the general’s head, and scratched his forehead,paving drops of blood to stain his face. As he lost his hold upon theta' 1C ^ e ~ 1 ' e iH’ re eled from the saddle, and was caught by the arms of Cap-t^Wn, of the Signal Corps . Laid upon the ground, there came at onceHs succor General A. P. Hill and members of his staff. The writer reached
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MAJOR-GENERAL R. E. COLSTON, C. S. A.FROM A PHOTOGRAPH.