As the sun set on May 1, Confederate generals near Chancellorsville disagreed over whether to press forward to seize the crossroads or pause to reorganize and rest, and after a brief advance was met by the deadly fire of Col. Patrick H. O'Rorke's New York brigade, they chose to bivouac for the night. The Confederate camp stood here, separated from the Union camp to the west by only a valley, while Hooker's men, posted on a five-mile arc around Chancellorsville, dug in and endured an uneasy night. Although the day's fighting had ended, a much larger battle lay ahead, and after wresting the initiative from Hooker, Gen. Robert E. Lee met with Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson south of here and formed the plan to flank the Union army the next day.