An article in the Goldsboro Messenger states that "Gen. Stonewall Jackson was wounded late in the afternoon of May 10, and not at night." This statement is quite incorrect. I was a chaplain in Jackson's old Stonewall brigade. He moved his brigade late on Saturday, May 2 to the front to relieve the troops that had been engaged in battle that day, and to enter into the engagement on the next day. Gen. A. P. Hill's fresh columns were relieving Gen. Rhodes' troops, who had marched twenty miles that day, and fought over three miles of rough country.

Darkness had arrested the conflict, and great confusion prevailed from the rapid advance in battle, and the intermingling of regiments. On every side might be heard men shouting out loudly the number of their regiment, in hopes of hearing a friendly response. Gen. Jackson, having personally arranged for the relief of the wounded in front, rode down the turnpike toward Chancellorsville to ascertain exactly the position and intention of the Federal army.

It was then, in the darkness, very little light being given by the moon - that he was wounded in both arms. With great difficulty he was borne back, and placed in an ambulance, which stopped at the position of the Stonewall brigade.

As a profound secret I was informed by one of the surgeons that Gen. Jackson was wounded and then in the ambulance. He was faint from loss of blood, and it had been impossible to get the alcoholic stimulants necessary for his relief. I was requested to procure some spirits for him if possible and with great difficulty I secured enough from the brigade surgeon. All this was on the night of Saturday, 2nd May 1863, and not in the daylight. The troops were then lying in trenches captured in the afternoon, and the dead of the battle were beside them. It was desired to keep the fall of Gen. Jackson a secret, lest the soldiers should be discouraged in the hot contest on the next day.

On Sunday, May 10th, about 3 p.m., Stonewall Jackson "passed over the river and rested under the shade of the trees" on the River of Life in the Paradise of God. The night of earth unfolded into the clear and fadeless day of heaven.