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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Army of Sprawl Advancing on Chancellorsville. November 4, 2002. ... But new maps are making their way into the hands of those who live in history's back yard, and this time, ...

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 ...

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 ...