All too often, histories of Civil War battles concentrate on the
events of the battle, ignoring the larger campaign and undervaluing
the battle's impact on subsequent events. This work reveals and
explains the vital connection between two epic battles:
Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.
The staggering Confederate victories at Fredericksburg and
Chancellorsville are seldom treated as part of a coherent strategy,
and they have never been presented as a single campaign. Yet,
analyzed as a whole, the two battles go far to explain Lee's
military success. At the same time, the failures and bungling that
characterized Federal efforts are more intelligible when seen in
the light of the political and military circumstances that thrust
unprepared and inadequate Union commanders into predicaments they
little understood. The eastern theater in the winter of 1862 and
spring of 1863 witnessed sudden shifts in northern command and
strategy and increasing political intervention. Lincoln despaired
of McClellan and sought a general more willing to fight; whatever
the ultimate result of this search, it provided opportunities the
canny Lee was willing and able to exploit.
General
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