Lee's Greatest Triumph-The Battle of Chancellorsville - Chancellorsville VA
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As Union resistance around the Chancellor house dissolved, Robert E. Lee rode into the clearing behind his victorious battalions. Though badly outnumbered, Lee in three days had stopped the initial Union advance.
Waymark Code: WM18M1K
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 08/20/2023
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Lee's Greatest Triumph-The Battle of Chancellorsville
As Union resistance around the Chancellor house dissolved, Robert E. Lee rode into the clearing behind his victorious battalions. Though badly outnumbered, Lee in three days had stopped the initial Union advance, brazenly split his own army to launch the most successful flank attack of the war, and, on May 3, driven the Federals from their entrenched positions around Chancellorsville. The battle was perhaps the greatest of his career.
Thousands of Confederate troops raised their hats and cheered when they saw Lee arrive near the Chancellor house. Wrote one staff officer:
...it must have been from such a scene that men in ancient days rose to the dignity of gods.
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: National Park Service
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