This was the battle of Chancellorsville. While it was raging, SEDGWICK, with an overwhelming force, advanced from the Rappahannock, below Fredericksburgh, upon Gen. EARLY, who, with one division ...

Historians talked about the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863, considered to be General Robert E. Lee's greatest victory. Initially, Union General Joseph Hooker planned to envelop the Confederate ...

May 6th marked the 150th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Chancellorsville which started on April 30, 1863. The campaign pitted Union Army Major General Joseph Hooker’s Army of the ...

The Battle of Chancellorsville, they predicted, would prove the Waterloo of the Civil War. “Fighting Joe Hooker” would play the part of Wellington, and Robert E. Lee would suffer a defeat as ...

The lesson of the Battle of Chancellorsville, still taught at military academies, is that a small, creative force can overwhelm a much larger army.

History is all around the Regency at Chancellorsville, an amenity-rich development in Fredericksburg for residents 55 and over that sits on portions of a onetime Civil War battlefield.

His recently published book, "Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory," presents evidence that is at odds with the generally held opinions that the Battle of ...

The Battle of Chancellorsville, Va., in May 1863 elevated the already-famous Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson to mythical status and placed him among the ranks of history's best military leaders ...

Many historians consider the 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville to be Confederate General Robert E. Lee's greatest victory. Facing a Union Army more than twice the size of his own, Lee divided his ...