Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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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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GENERAL GEORGE G. MEADE it Banks Ford. Then moving back towardsHookers position Lee prepared to storm it.General Hooker, however, disheartened bySedgwicks defeat, withdrew his army acrossthe Rappahannock on the night of the fifth,and returned to his old position on the north side of that stream, having lost twelve thuUsand men and fourteen pieces of artillery inthe battle of Chancellorsville. The Confederate loss was also heavy. Out ofan army of about fifty thousand men, ten thou-sand two hundred andeighty-one were killed,wounded and captured.The victory was dearlybought by the Confed-erates by the death ofStonewall Jackson, whowas worth fully fiftythousand men to theircause. At the momentof his success againfthe Federal right, he washot down by his ownmen, who mistook hisescort for a party ofFederal cavalry. The success of theConfederates in Virginiawas more than counter*balanced by their re-verses in the West andSouthwest. The South-ern government, anxiousto change the courseof the

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