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Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville : the Dare Mark campaign

Author: Daniel E Sutherland
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1998.
Series: Great campaigns of the Civil War.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
This work reveals and explains the vital connection between two epic battles: Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.

The staggering Confederate victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville are seldom treated as part of a coherent strategy, and they have never been presented as a single campaign. Yet, analyzed as a whole, the two battles go far to explain Lee's military success.

At the same time, the failures

Lincoln despaired of McClellan and sought a general more willing to fight; whatever the ultimate result of this search, it provided opportunities the canny Lee was willing and able to exploit.  Read more...

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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Sutherland, Daniel E.
Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1998
(OCoLC)607088573
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Daniel E Sutherland
ISBN: 0803242530 9780803242531
OCLC Number: 38324637
Description: xiv, 234 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
Of generals and politicians --
Right in the wrong place --
Terrible uproar and destruction --
Not a pleasant topic --
Mired hopes and mud marches --
Hurrah for Hooker --
The Chinese game --
Practicing strategy --
Days of hard marching and derring-do --
The hardest battle ever fought --
Epilogue : Luck favored pluck and skill.
Series Title: Great campaigns of the Civil War.
Other Titles: Fredericksburg & Chancellorsville
Responsibility: Daniel E. Sutherland.
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Abstract:

This work reveals and explains the vital connection between two epic battles: Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.

The staggering Confederate victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville are seldom treated as part of a coherent strategy, and they have never been presented as a single campaign. Yet, analyzed as a whole, the two battles go far to explain Lee's military success.

At the same time, the failures and bungling that characterized Federal efforts are more intelligible when seen in the light of the political and military circumstances that thrust unprepared and inadequate Union commanders into predicaments they little understood. The eastern theater in the winter of 1862 and spring of 1863 witnessed sudden shifts in Northern command and strategy and increasing political intervention.

Lincoln despaired of McClellan and sought a general more willing to fight; whatever the ultimate result of this search, it provided opportunities the canny Lee was willing and able to exploit.

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