With only 52,000 infantry engaged, he suffered more than 13,000 casualties, losing some 25% of his force—men that the Confederacy, with its limited manpower, could not replace. On the evening of May 3 and all day May 4, Hooker remained in his defenses while Lee and Early battled Sedgwick.

The only sighting came shortly after Jackson's corps disengaged from Union forces south of Chancellorsville, and this worked to the Confederates' advantage—Hooker thought that his cavalry under Stoneman had cut Lee's At Fredericksburg, Sedgwick and Hooker were unable to communicate with one another because of a failure of telegraph lines. Hooker's errors include abandoning his offensive push on May 1 and ordering Sickles to give up Hazel Grove and pull back on May 2.

Aussi surnommée « Lee's perfect battle » (« la bataille parfaite de Lee ») à cause de sa tactique, risquée mais victorieuse, de diviser ses forces face à un ennemi largement supérieur en nombre. [Richard Wheeler; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. From his Fredericksburg headquarters, Lee decided to violate one of the generally accepted At the same time that General Jackson was marching west to join with Anderson on the morning of May 1, Hooker ordered an advance to the east to strike Anderson, pushing his men out of the impenetrable thickets and Despite being in a potentially favorable situation, Hooker halted his brief offensive.

About 18,000 men, divided equally between the two armies, fell that day. And when Jackson launched his attack, he had to hope that the Union forces were unprepared.

That afternoon, he finally did attack Early's position (after Early at one point abandoned it himself thanks to a misinterpreted order from Lee), and broke through. Early simply marched back and reoccupied the heights west of the city, cutting Sedgwick off. He also erred in his disposition of forces; some 40,000 men of the Army of the Potomac scarcely fired a shot. Portions of the Chancellorsville battlefield are now preserved as part of The Battle of Chancellorsville was depicted in the 2003 film Nothing has been more damaging to General Joseph Hooker's military reputation than this, from John Bigelowe's It can only be concluded that forty years after the event, elderly ex-staff officer Halstead was at best retailing some vaguely remembered campfire tale, and at worst manufacturing a role for himself in histories of the campaign ... Whatever Joe Hooker's failings at Chancellorsville, he did not publicly confess them.Eicher, p. 488. At the start of the campaign the Union army had an effective fighting force of 133,868 men on the field of battle; the Confederate army numbered less at 60,892.More importantly, the engagement began with a Union battle plan superior to most of the previous efforts by Army of the Potomac commanders. But he did it too late in the day to help Hooker. At the [First] Lee accepted Hooker's gambit and planned an attack for May 2. "The fighting on May 3, 1863, was some of the most furious anywhere in the war and would have ranked among the bloodiest battles of the Civil War by itself.

The Chancellorsville campaign began with the crossing of the Hooker embarked on a reorganization of the army, doing away with Burnside's ineffective grand division system. Au cours de la bataille de 1863, le lieutenant général Thomas J.

Hooker did not believe cavalry would be effective in the Wilderness, and placed only a few regiments there.Furgurson, p. 90; Eicher, pp. Reports of wounded men being burned alive were common. Soldiers tended to get lost in the impenetrable maze of undergrowth, and many fires started during the course of the battle.

When later asked why he had ordered a halt to his advance on May 1, Hooker is reputed to have responded, "For the first time, I lost faith in Hooker. First, Jackson had to make a 12-mile (19 km) march via roundabout roads to reach the Union right, and he had to do it undetected.

He made the cavalry into a separate corps under the command of The Chancellorsville campaign was potentially one of the most lopsided clashes of the war. Aussi surnommée « Lee's perfect battle » à cause de sa tactique, risquée mais victorieuse, de diviser ses forces face à un ennemi largement supérieur en nombre. La bataille de Chancellorsville fut une des plus importantes batailles de la guerre de Sécession en 1863. After breaking Early's defenses, Sedgwick foolishly neglected to secure Fredericksburg. But what led most of all to the impending Union disaster was the incompetent performance of the commander of the Union Hooker, concerned about Sickles' ability to hold what was now a salient into the Confederate lines, pulled the Jackson's mistake came when he was scouting ahead of his corps along the Orange Plank Road that night.

The Army of the Potomac was able to call on the services of self-styled "Professor of Aeronautics" Sears, p. 132. 68-70, 100-101. Lee, despite being outnumbered by a ratio of about five to two, won arguably his greatest victory of the war. He later wrote that half of the pillar "violently [struck me] ... in an erect position from my head to my feet. Having won a huge victory that day, Jackson wanted to press his advantage before Hooker and his army could regain their bearings and plan a counterattack, which might still succeed because of the sheer disparity in numbers. « Stonewall » Jackson, est blessé par un tir fratricide, mourant huit jours plus tard, le 10 mai 1863, d'une pneumonie. The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War, fought from April 30 to May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near the village of Chancellorsville and the area from there to the east at Fredericksburg.

Passing the Rapidan via Germanna and Ely’s Fords, the Federals concentrated near Chancellorsville on April 30 and May 1.