"Jackson at Chancellorsville " Topic

"Sometime after midnight, Tucker Lacy, who had camped near Jackson and Lee, awoke to find a small fire burning, and Jackson sitting alone in front of it on a Union hardtack box. "Sit down," Jackson said. "I want to talk to you." He explained that he needed more information about the roads west of Catharine Furnace. Jackson was worried that the route Lacy had suggested might bring his column too near the Federal pickets. Wasn't there a way farther to the south that would make them less visible? Lacy said he did not know but he did know someone who could plot such a route: Charles C. Wellford, the proprietor of Catharine Furnace, the only operating ironworks in the area. Jackson roused his mapmaker Hotchkiss and dispatched him and Lacy to the Wellford house, two miles away. There Wellford indeed suggested a better way—a road through the thickets that he had recently reopened to haul wood and iron ore—that would be invisible to just about anyone in the area. Wellford volunteered his son as a guide. Hotchkiss and Lacy galloped back to camp with the news, where they found Lee and Jackson both awake and sitting on hardtack boxes by the fire. Hotchkiss pulled up a third box and spread his map out on it, showing the generals this secret passage to the enemy's rear.
As Hotchkiss recalled, when he had finished his presentation, Lee turned to Jackson.
"General Jackson, what do you propose to do?" Lee asked…"

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Full article here
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Armand

Errrr…. this is not news or new information. Been written about for quite some time.

Don

Not news nor new info, just a interesting (or not) article of history about ACW.

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Armand