The Chancellorsville Campaign January May 1863

Author : Bradford A. Wineman
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786254405

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The Chancellorsville Campaign, January-May 1863 [Illustrated Edition] by Bradford A. Wineman Pdf

Includes 4 maps and numerous other illustrations In The Chancellorsville Campaign, January–May 1863, author Bradford Wineman examines the battle of Chancellorsville in which a powerful Union Army, under Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, was pitted against a smaller but well-led Confederate force under General Robert E. Lee. Hooker planned a bold flanking maneuver to secure a Union victory, crush the rebel army, and open the way for a march toward Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital. He anticipated a glorious victory for his Federal troops. In the end it was Lee, and his chief lieutenant, Maj. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, who achieved what many historians have called the South’s greatest victory during the Civil War. Once Hooker had maneuvered the bulk of his forces over the Rappahannock River the Union commander gathered his troops into a defensive position at Chancellorsville and waited for Lee to attack. Lee seized the initiative, made several risky tactical moves, and drove the Federals from the field after three days of intense fighting. Only the death of the “Stonewall” Jackson tarnished Lee’s crowning victory.

Author : Bradford Alexander Wineman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1241269388

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The Chancellorsville Campaign :. by Bradford Alexander Wineman Pdf

Author : United States Army,Bradford A Wineman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1081927666

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The Chancellorsville Campaign January-May 1863 by United States Army,Bradford A Wineman Pdf

In The Chancellorsville Campaign, January-May 1863, author Bradford Wineman examines the battle of Chancellorsville in which a powerful Union Army, under Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, was pitted against a smaller but well-led Confederate force under General Robert E. Lee. Hooker planned a bold flanking maneuver to secure a Union victory, crush the rebel army, and open the way for a march toward Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital. He anticipated a glorious victory for his Federal troops.In the end it was Lee, and his chief lieutenant, Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, who achieved what many historians have called the South's greatest victory during the Civil War. Once Hooker had maneuvered the bulk of his forces over the Rappahannock River the Union commander gathered his troops into a defensive position at Chancellorsville and waited for Lee to attack. Lee seized the initiative, made several risky tactical moves, and drove the Federals from the field after three days of intense fighting. Only the death of the "Stonewall" Jackson tarnished Lee's crowning victory.

Author : Bradford Wineman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0966298667

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The Chancellorsville Campaign by Bradford Wineman Pdf

Author : Philip W. Parsons
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476610221

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The Union Sixth Army Corps in the Chancellorsville Campaign by Philip W. Parsons Pdf

The winter of 1862-1863 found the Union Army of the Potomac in sad shape, after bloody battles, multiple defeats, lack of adequate provisions and high desertion rates. When Major General Joseph Hooker took command, he set about revamping conditions. Instructed by President Lincoln to make the destruction of General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia the Union’s top priority, Hooker mounted the Chancellorsville Campaign. Lee’s aggressive battlefield manner coupled with Hooker’s failure to initiate an assault led to a sound defeat by Confederate forces and left Hooker—who ultimately had only himself and his lack of initiative to blame—looking for a scapegoat. Among those Hooker attempted to hold responsible was the courageous Sixth Army Corps, Major General John Sedgwick commanding, the unit responsible for the sole Union victory of the entire campaign. This history of the battlefield engagements of the Sixth Army Corps on May 3 and 4, 1863, is compiled from contemporary accounts and a variety of postwar histories.

Author : Augustus Choate Hamlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863
ISBN : UOM:39015027616260

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The Battle of Chancellorsville by Augustus Choate Hamlin Pdf

Author : Hamlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00035297

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The Battle of Chancellorsville by Hamlin Pdf

Author : Chris Mackowski,Kristopher D. White
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611211375

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Chancellorsville's Forgotten Front by Chris Mackowski,Kristopher D. White Pdf

The first book-length study of two overlooked engagements that helped turned the tide of a pivotal Civil War battle. By May of 1863, the stone wall at the base of Marye’s Heights above Fredericksburg, Virginia, loomed large over the Army of the Potomac, haunting its men with memories of slaughter from their crushing defeat there the previous December. They would assault it again with a very different result the following spring. This time the Union troops wrested the wall and high ground from the Confederates and drove west into the enemy’s rear. The inland drive stalled in heavy fighting at Salem Church. Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front is the first book to examine Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church and the central roles they played in the final Southern victory. Authors Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White have long appreciated the pivotal roles these engagements played in the Chancellorsville campaign, and just how close the Southern army came to grief—and the Union army to stunning success. Together they seamlessly weave their extensive newspaper, archival, and firsthand research into a compelling narrative to better understand these combats, which usually garner little more than a footnote to the larger story of Stonewall Jackson’s march and fatal wounding. Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front offers a thorough examination of the decision-making, movements, and fighting that led to the bloody stalemate at Salem Church, as Union soldiers faced the horror of an indomitable wall of stone—and an undersized Confederate division stood up to a Union juggernaut.

Author : Ted Ballard,Billy Arthur
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782898566

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Chancellorsville Staff Ride: Briefing Book [Illustrated Edition] by Ted Ballard,Billy Arthur Pdf

Contains more than 20 maps, diagrams and illustrations Although "Fighting Joe" Hooker skillfully executes a well-conceived plan and out-flanks his adversary, months of offensive planning are shelved as he suddenly orders his army on the defensive. Lee seizes the initiative and achieves what has often been called his most brilliant victory. How could this happen when Hooker's army outnumbers that of Lee 2 to 1 and is far superior in artillery and logistics? Answers to these and other questions concerning leadership, communications, use of terrain, and the psychology of men in battle, are often found by personal reconnaissance of the battlefield. This book offers a staff ride briefing of Chancellorsville. Since 1906 staff rides have been used to in the education of U.S. Army officers to narrow the gap between peacetime training and war.

Author : David G. Martin
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0938289063

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The Chancellorsville Campaign by David G. Martin Pdf

Chancellorsville has long been considered Lee's greatest battlefield success; The Chancellorsville Campaign is the most serious treatment of the entire campaign in over thirty years.

Author : James Harrison Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU54238986

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The Campaign of Chancellorsville by James Harrison Wilson Pdf

Author : Samuel Bates
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1484835980

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The Battle of Chancellorsville by Samuel Bates Pdf

Published in 1882, this is a history of the Chancellorsville Campaign during the Civil War, from the point of view of the Union Army.

Author : Edward James Stackpole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037999849

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Chancellorsville by Edward James Stackpole Pdf

History and anlysis of the Chancellorsville campaign from the cavalry fighting in the winter to Hooker's final defeat in May 1863.

Author : Ernest B. Furgurson
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015028471392

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Chancellorsville, 1863 by Ernest B. Furgurson Pdf

For 130 years historians and military strategists have been obsessed by the battle of Chancellorsville. It began with an audaciously planned stroke by Union general Joe Hooker as he sent his army across the Rappahannock River and around Robert E. Lee's lines. It ended with that same army fleeing back in near total disarray -- and Hooker's reputation in ruins. This splendid account of Chancellorsville -- the first in more than 35 years -- explains Lee's most brilliant victory even as it places the battle within the larger canvas of the Civil War. Drawing on a wealth of first-hand sources, it creates a novelistic chronicle of tactics and characters while it retraces every thrust and parry of the two armies and the fateful decisions of their commanders, from Hooker's glaring display of moral weakness to the inspired risk-taking of Lee and Stonewall Jackson, who was mortally wounded by friendly fire. At once impassioned and gracefully balanced, Chancellorsville 1863 is a grand achievement in Civil War history. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Mark G. Elam
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782893950

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Transforming Under Fire: the Atlanta Campaign of 1864 [Illustrated Edition] by Mark G. Elam Pdf

Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack - 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities. Many historians give William Sherman total credit for the success of the Atlanta Campaign, when in fact it was the success of the Federal team as an institution. Conversely, many blame Joseph Johnston for the Confederate loss in that campaign, when in fact he was only one cog in the Confederate war machine. It was beyond Johnston ‘s ability to adapt if President Jefferson Davis and the rest of the Confederate team failed in fulfilling their duties. More importantly, the Federal team adapted during the middle of the war. In short they were able to transform the way they fought the war. The Confederates in the west were never able to do the same.