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| Union troops from Brooks division, under John Sedgwick,
shortly after crossing the Rappahannock. The following day
their unsupported attack down the Orange Plank road resulted in
early success, but they were ultimately driven back by greater
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Chancellorsville is one of the greatest battles of
the Civil War, with surprises and brilliance on both sides of the
battlefield.
General Hooker's original intelligence ruse that
opened up a 20 mile gap in the Confederate left flank, and his
exploitation of that gap to send his army across two two rivers
undetected into the Confederate left just short of Fredericksburg
is sublimely brilliant.
And General Lee's response to that threat is just
as amazing. Faced with his flank turned by an enemy in
greater numbers than his own, Lee used terrain and initiative to
counter that threat with the most famous flanking maneuver of the
war. As well, he had to stop in mid battle and hold off an
attack from Union troops that had broken through into the
Confederate rear
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| Chancellorsville
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