Chapter 26

Lee snuffs a battle in the breeze.--Hooker's army supposed to be 100,000 men.--Lee's perhaps 55,000 efficient.--I am planting potatoes.--Part of Longstreet's army gone up.-- Enemy makes a raid.--Great victory at Chancellorville.-- Hot weather.--Our poor wounded coming in streams, in ambulances and on foot.--Hooker has lost the game.-- Message from the enemy.--They ask of Lee permission to bury their dead.--Granted, of course.--Hooker fortifying.--Food getting scarce again.--Gen. Lee's thanks to the army.-- Crowds of prisoners coming in.--Lieut.-Gen. Jackson dead.-- Hooker's raiders "hooked" a great many horses.--Enemy demand 500,000 more men.--Beauregard complains that so many of his troops are taken to Mississippi.--Enemy at Jackson, Miss.--Strawberries.--R. Tyler.--My cherries are coming on finely.--Ewell and Hill appointed lieutenant-generals.-- President seems to doubt Beauregard's veracity.--Hon. D. M. Lewis cuts his wheat to-morrow, May 28th.--Johnston says our troops are in fine spirits around Vicksburg.-- Grant thunders on.--Plan of servile insurrection. 303