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The news that their beloved general was wounded was for some time kept from the troops ; but a whisper gradually spread , and the grief of his soldiers was unbounded , for rather would they have suffered a disastrous defeat than that Stonewall Jackson should have fallen . General Stuart assumed the command ; General Hill , who was second in command , having , with many other officers , been wounded by the tremendous storm of grape and canister that the Federals poured through the wood when they anticipated an attack . At daybreak the troops again moved forward in three lines , Stuart placing his thirty guns on a slight ridge , where they could sweep the lines of the Federal defenses . Three times the position was won and lost ; but the Confederates fought with such fury and resolution , shouting each time they charged the Federal ranks , `` Remember Jackson , '' that the enemy gradually gave way , and by ten o'clock Chancellorsville itself was taken , the Federals being driven back into the forest between the house and the river . -LSB- Illustration : Map -- THE BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE May 2nd . & 3rd . 1863 . -RSB-