David Seals
Cadet
- Joined
- Aug 16, 2015
- Location
- Flagstaff, Arizona
If he had not been wounded on the night of May 2, 1863, in the Wilderness darkness (although there was a clear full Moon), Lt. General Jackson planned to cut off Hooker's retreat at the United States Ford on the Rappanhannock River; and annihilate the Army of the Potomac! Then, like Wellington after Waterloo pursuing Napoleon all the way to Paris, Jackson planned to pursue the remnants of the Union Army all the way to Washington nearby, and destroy the U.S. Government, thus ending the War. Those were his intentions and he said so.