Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave

Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave
by Ernest B. Furgurson

Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave
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Author: Ernest B. Furgurson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1993-09-28
ISBN: 0679728317
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Vintage

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Book Review: "The enemy has made a stand at Chancellor's..."
Summary: 5 Stars

It's hard for this shameless fan of the Army of Northern Virginia to find much wrong with Furgurson's account of Chancellorsville. He does a masterful job building up to the climactic attack of Jackson's corps against Uh-Oh Howard, and then with the wounding of Stonewall, presenting the ANV's high water mark and imminent decline as inextricably intertwined in that one fateful day: May 2, 1863.

And if losing Stonewall wasn't enough, we see Lee's finest moment, the reuniting of the ANV wings at Chancellor's after Hooker's withdrawal, cut short. He has to deal with Sedgewick coming up from Fredericksburg. Furgurson covers the ancillary actions at Fredericksburg and Salem Church with the same thoroughness as the main Chancellorsville actions.
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Summary of Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave

For 130 years historians and military strategists have been obsessed by the battle of Chancellorsville. It began with an audaciously planned stroke by Union general Joe Hooker as he sent his army across the Rappahannock River and around Robert E. Lee's lines. It ended with that same army fleeing back in near total disarray -- and Hooker's reputation in ruins.

This splendid account of Chancellorsville -- the first in more than 35 years -- explains Lee's most brilliant victory even as it places the battle within the larger canvas of the Civil War. Drawing on a wealth of first-hand sources, it creates a novelistic chronicle of tactics and characters while it retraces every thrust and parry of the two armies and the fateful decisions of their commanders, from Hooker's glaring display of moral weakness to the inspired risk-taking of Lee and Stonewall Jackson, who was mortally wounded by friendly fire. At once impassioned and gracefully balanced, Chancellorsville 1863 is a grand achievement in Civil War history.

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