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 General Lee's Strategy at Chancellor soille. 27

Second. The witnesses for and against the claim that Jack- son originated the movement around Hooker are in direct con- flict, and the testimony of the witnesses who claim the credit for General Jackson, is at variance with facts officially recorded at the time.

Third. \Yhat General Lee has said precludes the possibil- ity of Jackson's having proposed the movement; for when in 1866 and again in 1867 the opportunity was afforded him to con- firm the claim made by Dr. Dabney that General Jackson "pro- posed" the movement around Hooker at Chancellorsville, while he stated all that Jackson had done, he made no admission that the proposition to do what was undertaken and accomplished was originated by anyone but himself.

This large map, which I have used to show the position of th^ contending forces and the route of the 2nd Corps, is a copy of one published by Dr. Dabney in 1866, with his account of the Bat- tle of Chancellorsville, and is additional evidence that Jackson's line of march was by the well known Furnace and Brock Roads, as indicated by General Lee, and not by a newly discovered road, as claimed by Hotchkiss.

Giving full consideration to the above evidence, I can see no reason to doubt that my above quoted personal recollec- tions of the interview between Lee and Jackson on the night of May ist, 1863, in the presence of Captain Boswell and myself, as given in writing to General A. L. Long, is a correct state- ment of what occurred.