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March 2025 CVBT History Wire – “Death and Eternity Have Been Brought Very Near to Me”: May 3, 1863, Fighting at Chancellorsville’s Nine Mile Run
CVBT History Wire – “Death and Eternity Have Been Brought Very Near to Me”: May 3, 1863, Fighting at Chancellorsville’s Nine Mile Run The March 2025 “CVBT History Wire” focuses on the often overlooked but significant fighting that occurred along Nine Mile Run at Chancellorsville on May 3, 1863. Read here: “Death and Eternity Have […]
Read more...A Thousand Words a Battle: Chancellorsville
Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5, 1863 Though famous for Stonewall Jackson’s flank attack and his wounding at the hands of Confederate troops on May 2, the battle of Chancellorsville continued into the next day. The fighting on May 3 proved to be the bloodiest day of the battle and saw repeated Confederate attacks thrown upon […]
Read more...Chancellorsville’s ‘Flying Dutchmen’ — Fact or Fable?
ECW welcomes back guest author Dan Walker. After Confederate Lt. Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson’s devastating May 2, 1863, flank attack at Chancellorsville, a story soon spread throughout the Union army about the “Flying Dutchmen” of the heavily German XI Corps. Some of these soldiers fled far and fast enough to be captured by Confederates on the […]
Read more...Chancellorsville: R. E. Lee’s Greatest Pyrrhic Victory
This blog expands on the discussion Ryan Quint wrote in his 2022 ECW blog, “More than Just Jackson” and Chris Mackowski’s and Kris White’s Chancellorsville research.[1] What’s a “Pyrrhic victory?” It’s a victory that results in such a heavy toll it negates any true sense of achievement, or a victory in which a commander loses […]
Read more...An Emerging Image of General Lee at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville
Stately. That’s the word I probably would have picked ten, maybe even three years ago, to describe Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The visuals that would have come to mind would have been Mort Kunstler paintings. There are times in primary sources that people saw Lee in that type of gentlemanly grandeur, and that image […]
Read more...1863: “Even the birds are seldom heard with their cheerful voices”: A Confederate Reflects Post-Chancellorsville
Though sometimes referred to as Robert E. Lee’s greatest victory, the battle of Chancellorsville resulted in nearly 13,000 Confederate casualties– almost 20% of the Army of Northern Virginia’s strength. As the Confederacy mourned its losses, perhaps mostly famously the death of Stonewall Jackson, Sergeant Lafayette Cooper, of the Georgian Troup Artillery, sat down to write […]
Read more...Chancellorsville: Under Preservation Threat
The battle of Chancellorsville. A defining moment in the American Civil War and U.S. History. As two armies of a divided nation clashed in the dense woods of the Virginian wilderness at the beginning of May 1863. By the end of the fighting, an estimated 30,764 men had fallen—dead, wounded, or missing. On the morning […]
Read more...Wondering in the Chancellorsville Night
Many regimental histories from the post-war era must be studied with a healthy level of suspicion since some writers were prone to exaggeration and self-aggrandizement in their memories, and Major St. Clair Mulholland of the 116th Pennsylvania (Irish Brigade) is no exception. However, a level of historical questioning should not prevent a reader from taking […]
Read more...Chancellorsville on the ECW YouTube page
If you can’t make it to Chancellorsville this week for the 160th anniversary of the battle, perhaps you can at least make it to YouTube. We have some great content there you can check out. For instance: Take a tour of Jackson’s Flank March with Chris Mackowski: Chris talks about the wounding of Stonewall Jackson […]
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