Hey everyone, thanks for tuning in to episode number 268 of our Civil War Podcast.

I'm Rich.

And I'm Tracy.

Hello y'all.

Welcome to the podcast.

As y'all recall in the last episode, we talked about how Stonewall Jackson was shot by

his own troops in the dark and the woods, late on the evening of Saturday, May 2, 1863,

at the Battle of Chancellorsville.

With his wounding in that friendly fire incident, Jackson's role at Chancellorsville came to

an end, although Stonewall then had a new battle to fight, a battle for his life.

Stonewall Jackson's wounding and subsequent death were a tragedy for the Confederacy.

We're going to wait until the end of the Chancellor'sville story arc to talk about Stonewall's

death on May 10th.

And we're going to wait to talk about his death because as we mentioned in the last

show, the Battle of Chancellorsville didn't end with Jackson's flank attack.

The majority of the fighting and the casualties remained ahead on May 3rd.

Stonewall Jackson fell on the eve of a new phase of the battle.

This new phase of the battle would be a fight of an entirely different nature and would

be in the hands of an entirely different commander, as Stonewall's second corps would

be led into battle on May 3rd by Jeb Stewart.

On the other side of the lines, two things became evident during the night of May 2nd,

and those were that Hooker was losing, but he had not yet lost.

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