Campaign ChancellorsvilleHachette Books, 1999 M05 7 - 278 pages 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 lose a leg at Gettysburg.) This second 1886 edition of his classic study, first published in 1881, is marked by Dodge's unsparing analysis and astute interpretations, which have retained their value and vigor for over a century. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
CONDITION OF THE COMBATANTS | 7 |
HOOKER AND THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC | 12 |
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A. P. Hill advance appear army artillery assault attack Banks's Ford batteries battle bridges brigade called camp campaign carried cavalry Chancellorsville clearing column command Committee communication Conduct Confederate crossing daylight defeat despatch destroy directed division Dodge early effect Eleventh Corps enemy entire equal expected fact Federal field fighting fire flank force formed Fredericksburg front given ground guns HEADQUARTERS heavy heights held hill hold Hooker House Howard hundred infantry instructions Jackson latter Lee's less loss miles military morning move movement night occupied officers once operations opinion passed plank road position Potomac pushed Rappahannock reached rear received regiments reserve retired retreat river Sedgwick sent Sickles side soldiers soon success taken testimony Third thousand thrown tion troops Warren whole wing withdraw woods wounded