"The Wounding of Stonewall Jackson" Topic

"Several hundred yards to the south of the Orange Plank Road, a Pennsylvania unit, the 128th Infantry, had stumbled through the dusk quite by accident into the main Confederate line. Running into unfriendlies in the tangled Wilderness was bad enough on the nerves, but the appearance of the Pennsylvanians discomfited the Confederates all the more because it seemed the Keystoners had somehow slipped past the skirmishers that had been posted forward. Realizing their blunder, the Pennsylvanians tried to escape, but the Confederates took a large number of them as prisoners.
Word of the incident spread along the Confederate line: Union troops wandering through the darkness were liable to appear at any time and at any place.

Already skittish, Confederates began shooting at shadows. One jumpy Confederate would infect the man next to him—who would, in turn, spook the man next to him. The shooting intensified and, like a wave, began moving northward along the entire Confederate line—right across Jackson's front just as he and his men returned down the Mountain Road from their reconnaissance mission…"
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Armand

Seems to be well written from what is shown through the link. Thank you for sharing.

A votre service mon ami!.

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Armand

What blew my mind when I visited the Jackson monument at the Chancellorsville visitor center was the marker for an unknown Union soldier about 25 feet away!!
John