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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 houses and the river . Lee had early in the morning begun to advance from his side to the attack , but just as he was moving forward the news came that Sedgwick had recrossed at Fredericksburg , captured a portion of the Confederate force there , and was advancing to join Hooker . He at once sent two of his three little divisions to join the Confederates who were opposing Sedgwick 's advance , while with the three or four thousand men remaining to him , he all day made feigned attacks upon the enemy 's position , occupying their attention there , and preventing them from sending reinforcements to the troops engaged with Stuart . At night he himself hurried away , took the command of the troops opposed to Sedgwick , attacked him vigorously at daybreak , and drove him with heavy loss back across the river .