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Title: Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac (electronic resource): a critical history of operations in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, from the commencement to the close of the war 1861-5
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Swinton, William, 1833-1892
Subjects: United States. Army of the Potomac
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
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e had vaunted, resulted in the disastroustermination of a campaign thus brilliantly opened. Now, asthese circumstances furnish the key to the right apprecia-tion of the whole action, I shall, in the succeeding chapter,set them forth with some fulness of detail. TILAT CHANCELLORSVTLLE—FRIDAY. When, on Thursday night, Hooker had concentrated hisfour corps at Chancellorsville, the real character of the move-ment, which, up to that point, had been so admirably con-cealed from his antagonist, became fully disclosed. TheConfederate leader saw that the demonstrations near Fred-ericksburg that had engaged his attention were but a mask,and that the turn of affairs called for the promptest action.Lee, with instant perception of the situation, now seized themasses of his force, and with the grasp of a Titan swungthem into position as a giant might fling a mighty stone from Map of the including Operations. $^^^^ mow APRIL 29tLxo MAY 5th.. 1863. *&* References——« Union Lines Confederate
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^WK^FALMOUTH /V DERICKSBURG THE CHANCELLORSVILLE CAMPAIGN. 277 a sling.* One division and one brigade—the division ofEarly and the brigade of Barksdale—were intrusted with theduty of holding the heights of Fredericksburg ; and, at mid-night of Thursday, Jackson and McLaws, and the rest of hisdivisions, recalled from Fredericksburg, and from far belowFredericksburg, were put in motion towards Chancellorsvilleto meet Hooker with a front of opposition, before he shouldbe able, by advancing from Chancellorsville, to seize thedirect Confederate communications with Richmond. If the Confederate commander was able to effect this pur-pose, it was because the Union commander allowed him so todo; and this voluntary act on the part of the latter devolvesupon him the responsibility for all the consequences flowingtherefrom. Chancellorsville, Avhere Hooker had drawn up his forces,lies ten miles west and south of Fredericksburg, with whichit is connected by two excellent roads—the one macadami

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