The clash at Chancellorsville in 1863 was both an unexpected and
resounding Union defeat and a bold, brilliantly executed
Confederate victory. It was also an enormously complex ten-day
campaign, marked by intricate maneuvering and convoluted
high-command decisions that continue to defy easy analysis. At its
conclusion, General Joseph Hooker, the confident commander of the
Army of the Potomac, was in disgrace, while Confederate General
Robert E. Lee had won a decisive victory but at an exorbitant
price: the irreplaceable loss of "Stonewall" Jackson, killed by
friendly fire.
At age nineteen Theodore Ayrault Dodge volunteered for the Union
cause. As part of the Eleventh Corps -- surprised and routed by
"Stonewall" Jackson's celebrated flank attack -- he participated in
the battle's fiercest and costliest fighting. (Dodge would later
lose a leg at Gettysburg.) This second 1886 edition of his classic
study, first published in 1881, is marked by Dodge's unsparing
analysis and astute interpretations, which have retained their
value and vigor for over a century.
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