. Story of the Confederate States; or, History of the war for southern independence, embracing a brief but comprehensive sketch of the early settlement of the country, trouble with the Indians, the French, revolutionary and Mexican wars .. . time that he issued an address to his troops,in which he said: The operations of the last tlireedays have determined that our enemy must either in-gloriously fly orcome out from hisdefenses and give usbattle on our ownground, where cer-tain destructionawaits him. Tosome of his officersHooker remarked:The Confederatearmy is now tlielegitimate propertyof the
. Story of the Confederate States; or, History of the war for southern independence, embracing a brief but comprehensive sketch of the early settlement of the country, trouble with the Indians, the French, revolutionary and Mexican wars .. . time that he issued an address to his troops,in which he said: The operations of the last tlireedays have determined that our enemy must either in-gloriously fly orcome out from hisdefenses and give usbattle on our ownground, where cer-tain destructionawaits him. Tosome of his officersHooker remarked:The Confederatearmy is now tlielegitimate propertyof the Army of thePotomac. They ma;,as well pack up their Ijg; haversacks and f - i .■ make for Richmond,and I shall be afterthem. 4. Lees position Avas indeed a critical was in front of his lines at Fredericksburg with30,000 men, Hooker with 90,000 was on his flank atChancellorsville, and Stoneman with 10,000 cavalrywas marching to intercept his retreat upon Richmond. ^ Chancelloraville was not a town or village, but simply a farm housewith the usual buildings, situated at the edge of a small field, surroundedby a dense thicket, which extends for miles in every direction, and fromits wild aspect has been called the GENERAL JOSEPH HOOKER. Sedg- 238 Story of the Confederate States. Longstreet was absent in Southeast Virginia with 15,-000 men, and it was impossible to bring him to his aidin time. Thus, with barely 60,000 men of all arms,he must thwart and beat back the vast host that wastrying to overthrow him. 5. Leaving Early with his division, Barksdales bri-gade, and the reserve artillery under General Pendle-ton, 9,000 men in all, to watch and fight Sedgwick, he
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