CHAPTER V.

FROM ANTIETAM TO CHANCELLORSVILLE.

McClellan Relieved of His Command--Burnside Commands the Union Army--The Two Armies at Fredericksburg--The Blue Ridge Mountain--The Author a Prisoner--Battle of Fredericksburg--Burnside's Defeat--Losses on Both Sides--The Armies in Winter Quarters--How They Spent the Winter--Company Q's Escapade--Raid Into West Virginia--Burnside Relieved--Hooker in Command--Hooker Crossing the Rappahannock--Jackson's Successful Flank Movement--His Mortal Wound--Hooker's Defeat--He Recrosses the River--Losses on Both Sides--Stonewall Jackson's Death--The South in Tears--Ode to Stonewall Jackson by a Union Officer.