Forgotten Battles of the Chancellorsville Campaign

Exploring neglected and misinterpreted aspects of a pivotal point in the Civil War

Military operations in Fredericksburg, Virginia, were a significant part of the Chancellorsville Campaign, but they have been overshadowed by what occurred in the wilderness of Spotsylvania County, where Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson’s forces overwhelmed a hapless Union army. That struggle in the woods in the s...