. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... w Fredericksburg, and duringthat day and the thirtieth made demon-strations as though he intended to assaultthe southern position in the rear of thetown. oreneral Lees situation was now cri-tical, and demanded the most extra-ordinary exertions of him. Leaving asmall force to hold the heights in therear of Fredericksburg, he moved with hismain body towards Chancellorsville, whereHooker had intrenched himself with abouteighty thousand men. His only hope ofsafe
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... w Fredericksburg, and duringthat day and the thirtieth made demon-strations as though he intended to assaultthe southern position in the rear of thetown. oreneral Lees situation was now cri-tical, and demanded the most extra-ordinary exertions of him. Leaving asmall force to hold the heights in therear of Fredericksburg, he moved with hismain body towards Chancellorsville, whereHooker had intrenched himself with abouteighty thousand men. His only hope ofsafety lay in defeating this force beforeSedgwicks column could arrive to its assist-ance. On the second of May he sent Jack-sons corps to turn the Federal right, andwith the remainder of his force, deceived46 Hooker into the belief that he meant tostorm the intrenched position of the Federalarmy. Jackson performed his flank marchwith success, and on the afternoon of thesecond of May made a fierce attack uponthe Federal right, and drove it in upon itscentre. In this attack he received a mortalwound, of which he died on the tenth GENERAL JOHN SEDGWICK. The next day, the third, having reunitedJacksons corps with his main force, Leeattacked Hooker at Chancellorsville, anddrove him back to the junction of the Rap-pahannock and Rapidan rivers. He waspreparing to storm this new position whenhe learned that Sedgwick had defeated theforce left to hold the heights of Fredericks-burg on the third of May, and was marchingagainst him. His danger was now greater ^12 THE CIVIL WAR. than ever. Leaving a part of his army tohold Hooker in check, he marched rapidlyto meet Sedgwick. He encountered him atSalem Heights on the fourth of May, andcompelled him to recross the Rappahannock
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