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Following the debacle of the battle of Fredricksburg in December 1862, Burnside was replaced as commander of the Army of the Potomac by General Joseph Hooker. Having reorganised the army and improved morale, he planned an attack that would take his army to Richmond and end the war. Although faced by an army twice his size, the Confederate commander Robert E. Lee split his forces: Jubal Early was left to hold off Sedgwick's Fredericksburg attack, and 'Stonewall' Jackson was sent with 26,000 men in a wide envelopment around Hooker's right flank. This title details how at dusk on May 2, Jackson's men crashed into the Federal right flank, and how stiffening Federal resistance slowed the Confederate advance the next day.

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Origins of the Campaign/Opposing Commanders/Opposing Armies/Order of Battle/Chancellorsville: Day One/Day Two/Day Three/Chancellorsville Today/Wargaming Chancellorsville/Further Reading

Chancellorsville 1863: Jackson's Lightning Strike

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 25/09/1998
      ISBN13: 9781855327214, 978-1855327214
      ISBN10: 185532721X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Following the debacle of the battle of Fredricksburg in December 1862, Burnside was replaced as commander of the Army of the Potomac by General Joseph Hooker. Having reorganised the army and improved morale, he planned an attack that would take his army to Richmond and end the war. Although faced by an army twice his size, the Confederate commander Robert E. Lee split his forces: Jubal Early was left to hold off Sedgwick's Fredericksburg attack, and 'Stonewall' Jackson was sent with 26,000 men in a wide envelopment around Hooker's right flank. This title details how at dusk on May 2, Jackson's men crashed into the Federal right flank, and how stiffening Federal resistance slowed the Confederate advance the next day.

      Table of Contents
      Origins of the Campaign/Opposing Commanders/Opposing Armies/Order of Battle/Chancellorsville: Day One/Day Two/Day Three/Chancellorsville Today/Wargaming Chancellorsville/Further Reading

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