The Greatest Civil War Battles: The Battle of Chancellorsville
ISBN: 9781985449909
$9.99
- Includes pictures of important people, places, and events.
- Includes maps of the battle.
- Analyzes the generalship of the battle's most important leaders, including Robert E. Lee, Joe Hooker, JEB Stuart, Stonewall Jackson, and others.
- Includes descriptions of the fighting from the post-battle reports and memoirs of some of the leading generals, including Lee, Hooker, Darius Couch, JEB Stuart, and others.
- Includes a Bibliography for further reading.
- Includes a Table of Contents.
"My God! It is horrible--horrible; and to think of it, 130,000 magnificent soldiers so cut the pieces by less than 60,000 half-starved ragamuffins!" - Horace Greeley, Editor of the New York Tribune
Of all the Civil War battles fought, and of all the victories achieved by Robert E. Lee at the command of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, the Battle of Chancellorsville is considered the most tactically complex and ultimately the most brilliant Confederate victory of the war.
In early May 1863, the Army of the Potomac was at the height of its power as it bore down on Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia near Fredericksburg, where the Confederates had defeated them the previous December. The Union behemoth had spent most of the winter season being reorganized and drilled by "Fighting Joe" Hooker, an aggressive commander who had fought hard at places like Antietam. With an army nearing 130,000 men, Hooker's Army of the Potomac was twice the size of the Army of Northern Virginia.