Chancellorsville, 1863 - Robert E. Lee's Greatest Battle - American Civil War
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Published 2023-11-18
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📢 Narrated by David McCallion
🚩 Many thanks to Professor Andrew J. Mitchell for his excellent research and writing.
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🖼 Image credits:
Battle of Fredericksburg--the Army o.t. Potomac crossing the Rappahannock in the morning of Dec. 13' 1862, under t. comd. of Gen's Burnside, Sumner, Hooker & Franklin - Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. LC-USZC4-1757) lccn.loc.gov/91482051
Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. Dec 13th 1862 - LC-DIG-pga-06131 (digital file from original item) LC-USZC4-3365 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-1649 (b&w film copy neg.) lccn.loc.gov/90709058
📚 Sources:
Gary Gallagher, Chancellorsville: The Battle & Its Aftermath. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
T. Glenn Pait and Matthew Helton, “The crippled brain that prolonged the Civil War: General Joseph Hooker’s concussions at Chancellorsville.” Journal of Neurosurgery. 53: 3. (September 2002), doi.org/10.3171/2022.6.FOCUS22210.
Stephen W. Sears, Chancellorsville. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996).
Carl Smith, Chancellorsville: Jackson’s Lightning Strike. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004).
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"At Chancellorsville we gained another victory; our people were wild with delight—I, on the contrary, was more depressed than after Fredericksburg; our loss was severe, and again we gained not an inch of ground and the enemy could not be pursued." -Robert E. Lee
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“He’s lost his left arm… and I have lost my right.” - Robert E Lee
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Man, imagine that Confederate soldier shooting at who turned out to be his commander...then learning that the commander died.
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Can't wait for future content regarding the civil war, your collaboration with epic history produced some of the best battle descriptions on the internet!
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Thanks for the collaboration, I enjoyed working with yall!
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I've been waiting for some American Civil War battles from you! This was amazing! I hope to see more like this, maybe even more from the French and Indian wars, U.S. Revolution and the War of 1812. Thank you for all that you do.
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I can already tell that this video is going to be a masterpiece.
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Not stressed particularly but Jackson's forced march through muddy rained bushy tracks for 10 hours, while his troopers intact enough to carry out night attack past 5pm, this shows the leader's charisma and understanding of logistics. Rebel soldiers were willing to follow Jackson to unknown territory of the slaughter (battle). Also kudos to Federal brigades fended off this surprise flanking. Both sides must be well drilled and whole heartedly believed in their cause of sacrificing their own lives.
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Tactical masterstroke. Strategically insignificant. Lee’s enduring military legacy
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Thanks so much for doing Civil War battles! I don't hear so much about them as ancient battles, so it's good that someone is looking at them.
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This is fantastic. I was recently reading up on these campaigns, thank you for bringing them to life!
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The loss of the great Stonewall Jackson was the greatest defeat Lee could have ever suffered
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Nice to see some Civil War battles being covered
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The fact Jackson was cut down by his own men is one of the worst deaths to a commander in history.
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I'm stoked for more Civil War videos!!
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I usually listen to podcasts or audiobook breakdowns of famous battles, so seeing the way they unfolded on the battlefield really helps grasp how the tactics and settings can override the numerical advantage during the fight. I'm only commenting to help with the algorithm, more people need to see your videos
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Right from the Caption to the commentary and every bit of your video is usually a topnotch. History Marche is a channel second to non. ...and for the algorithm! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thank you!
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Thanks so much for this. One of my ancestors fought in a New York artillery brigade in the battle of the Wilderness soon after all this, so it's awesome to see how it all laid out.
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This is regarded as Lee’s masterpiece - but his victory was also in part to an incredible series of lucky circumstances that worked out in his favor.
