That Furious Struggle: Chancellorsville and the High Tide of the Confederacy, May 1-4, 1863
Chris Mackowski & Kristopher D. White
It has been called Robert E. Lee's supreme moment: riding into Chancellorsville clearing... the mansion itself aflame in the background... his gunpowder-smeared soldiers crowding around him, hats off, cheering wildly. After one of the most audacious gambits of the war, Lee and his men had defeated a foe more than two and a half times their size. The Federal commander, "Fighting Joe" Hooker, had boasted days earlier that his plans were perfect -- yet his army had crubled, and Hooker himself had literally been knocked senseless. History would remember the battle of Chancellorsville as "Lee's Greatest Victory.
" But Confederate fortunes ahd reached their high tide. Never again would fortune favor Lee the way it did at Chacellorsville -- even though the war continued another two years. That Furious Struggle recounts the story of the Army of Northern Virginia's last offensive battlefield victory -- a tale of triumph and tragedy that includes the second-bloodiest day of the Civil War; the mortal wounding of one of Confederacy's greatest icons, Stonewall Jackson; and the bold leadership of the man known as "audacity itself."
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Year:
2014
Publisher:
Savas Beatie
Language:
english
Pages:
192
ISBN 10:
1611212197
ISBN 13:
9781611212198
Series:
Emerging Civil War
File:
EPUB, 39.63 MB
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english, 2014