Chancellorsville, 1863 – Robert E. Lee’s Greatest Battle – American Civil War
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📢 Narrated by David McCallion
🚩 Many thanks to Professor Andrew J. Mitchell for his excellent research and writing.
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Battle of Fredericksburg–the Army o.t. Potomac crossing the Rappahannock in the morning of Dec. 13′ 1862, under t. comd. of Gen’s Burnside, Sumner, Hooker & Franklin – Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. LC-USZC4-1757) https://lccn.loc.gov/91482051
Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. Dec 13th 1862 – LC-DIG-pga-06131 (digital file from original item) LC-USZC4-3365 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-1649 (b&w film copy neg.) https://lccn.loc.gov/90709058
📚 Sources:
Gary Gallagher, Chancellorsville: The Battle & Its Aftermath. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
T. Glenn Pait and Matthew Helton, “The crippled brain that prolonged the Civil War: General Joseph Hooker’s concussions at Chancellorsville.” Journal of Neurosurgery. 53: 3. (September 2002), https://doi.org/10.3171/2022.6.FOCUS22210.
Stephen W. Sears, Chancellorsville. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996).
Carl Smith, Chancellorsville: Jackson’s Lightning Strike. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004).
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Hello, I would like to see any of the campaigns of Jan Žižka of Trocnov, Bohemian general, who has fought in the Hussite War. I think he was a great leader and as Khalid ibn al-Walid has never lost a single battle, in the known history.
Lee's ? Greatest battle !
Stonewall Jackson won it for him .
No real victories were achieved under Lee without Jackson .
Very good! I would love more civil war content!
Chancellorsville was as much Jackson's victory as it was Lee's. Perhaps if Jackson were still in command, the Southern left flank could have surrounded the Northern right flank and forced a decisive victory. Lee and Stuart were unwilling to attempt such an all in maneuver though and so did not have a chance to fully capitalize on their victory.
Lee was a good general, but he was not on par with the likes of Napoleon or Frederick the Great. Burdened by inferior numbers and resources, Lee could win engagements to not lose the war, but Lee could not defeat his enemies to win a war.
“Lee being one of the great commanders of history.” is a massive exaggeration.
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Jackson is such an underrated military mind. In my opinion he is BY FAR the most tactically genius commander of the entire US Civil War
“He’s lost his left arm… and I have lost my right.” – Robert E Lee
Thank you for making this video. For years civil war content exploded but for some reason very few videos on Chancellorsville were made. Which is weird because many consider it the greatest Confederate victory of the war
Spectacular! We need more content on the Army of Northern Virginia.