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 ...

Lee himself indicated the difficulty humorously when he was remonstrated with for taking unnecessary risks, and answered, 'I wish someone would tell me my proper place in battle. I am always told ...

THE BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE.; THE LATEST. Share ... about 6 o'clock, Gen. JACKSON attacked the enemy's right flank, and the first general battle ensued. Gen ... whilst Gen. LEE assailed him ...

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 ...

One hundred and fifty years ago, on May 2, 1863, during the American Civil War, Robert E. Lee’s masterpiece of the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, took place. This was Lee’s ...

The Battle of Gettysburg, fought on the first three days of July in 1863, resulted in more than 51,000 total casualties (dead, wounded, missing, captured), including more than 7,000 dead, yet it began ...

The cruiser is named after the 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, which, despite heavy casualties, is considered Gen. Robert E. Lee's greatest victory in the war. The battle also led to the wounding ...

Lee had just been victorious a month earlier in the Battle of Chancellorsville and decided to take the 75,000 man Army of Northern Virginia north of the Mason-Dixon Line, ...