The Campaign of Chancellorsville
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The clash at Chancellorsville in 1863 was an enormously complex ten-day campaign. At its conclusion, General Joseph Hooker, the confident commander of the Army of the Potomac, was in disgrace, while Confederate General Robert E. Lee had won a decisive victory but at the loss of the irreplaceable "Stonewall" Jackson, killed by friendly fire.At age nineteen Theodore Ayrault Dodge volunteered for the Union cause. As part of the Eleventh Corps—surprised and routed by "Stonewall" Jackson's celebrated flank attack—he participated in the battle's fiercest and costliest fighting. (Dodge would later lo...
Chapters (40)
- THE CAMPAIGN OF CHANCELLORSVILLE
- THE CAMPAIGN OF CHANCELLORSVILLE.
- I. INTRODUCTION.
- II. CONDITION OF THE COMBATANTS.
- III. HOOKER AND THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
- IV. THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA.
- V. DIFFICULTY OF AN ATTACK.
- VI. THE PROPOSED CAVALRY RAID.
- VII. THE FEINT BY THE LEFT WING.
- VIII. THE REAL MOVE BY THE RIGHT WING.
- IX. LEE'S INFORMATION AND MOVEMENTS.
- X. HOOKER'S ADVANCE FRIDAY.
- XI. THE POSITION AT CHANCELLORSVILLE.
- XII. JACKSON'S MARCH, AND SICKLES'S ADVANCE.
- XIII. HOOKER'S THEORIES AND CHANCES.
- XIV. POSITION OF THE ELEVENTH CORPS.
- XV. THE SITUATION AT SIX O'CLOCK.
- XVI. JACKSON'S ATTACK.
- XVII. THE CONDUCT OF THE ELEVENTH CORPS.
- XVIII. HOOKER'S PARRY.
- XIX. THE MIDNIGHT ATTACK.
- XX. STONEWALL JACKSON.
- XXI. THE POSITION AT FAIRVIEW.
- XXII. THE FIGHT AT FAIRVIEW.
- XXIII. THE LEFT CENTRE.
- XXIV. THE NEW LINES.
- XXV. SUNDAY'S MISCARRIAGE.
- XXVI. SEDGWICK'S CHANGE OF ORDERS.
- XXVII. SEDGWICK'S ASSAULT.
- XXVIII. SEDGWICK MARCHES TOWARDS HOOKER.
- XXIX. SALEM CHURCH.
- XXX. SEDGWICK IN DIFFICULTY.
- XXXI. SEDGWICK WITHDRAWS.
- XXXII. HOOKER'S CRITICISMS.
- XXXIII. HOOKER'S FURTHER PLANS.
- XXXIV. THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC RE-CROSSES.
- XXXV. OPERATIONS OF THE CAVALRY CORPS.
- XXXVI. HOOKER'S RESUME OF THE CAMPAIGN.
- XXXVII. SOME RESULTING CORRESPONDENCE.
- APPENDIX.
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