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Chancellorsville| Site in Virginia, in Spotsylvania County, between Richmond and Washington, 16 km/10 mi west of Fredericksburg. It was the scene of a battle in the American Civil War 1863, when Gen ‘Stonewall’ Jackson was fatally wounded and Gen Hooker was defeated by the Confederate army under Robert E Lee. The site lies within the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. |
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American Civil War (1861–65)
Chancellorsville, Battle of
Civil War, American
Devens, Charles, Jr
Fredericksburg
Geary, John White
Gettysburg
Hancock, Winfield Scott
Howard, Oliver Otis
Jackson, ‘Stonewall’
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May 2
McLaws, Lafayette
Ramseur, Stephen Dodson
Revere, Joseph Warren
Sedgwick, John
Slocum, Henry Warner
Spotsylvania County
United States: history 1861 - 77
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| But the talent mix was disrupted when Lee's leading field commander, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, was accidentally killed by his own troops after his brilliant rout of the Union army at Chancellorsville in May of 1863. Born in 1835 in Rockland, Maine, Ames graduated from West Point in 1861, was wounded at Bull Run and went on to fight at Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Petersburg, Gettysburg, and Antietam. This is the definite history of a confederate military unit that fought throughout the Civil War including action at Seven Pines, with Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain, at the Second Battle of Manassa, at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and finally, at Fort Gregg at the final gasp of military action. |