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Chancellorsville 1863 - Jackson's Lightning Strike

By: Osprey

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Classic Battles Series (Military Book Club Editions)

Last Stocked on 3/10/2020

Product Info

Title
Chancellorsville 1863 - Jackson's Lightning Strike
Publisher
Category
Author
Carl Smith
Publish Year
1998
Pages
96
Dimensions
7.5x5x.55"
NKG Part #
2147465148
Type
Hardcover

Description

The Classic Battles Series is series of book made for the Military Book Club. Each book is the same as it's Campaign Series counterpart but presented in a nice hardcover format.

Following the debacle of the battle of Fredricksburg in December 1862, Burnside was replaced as commander of the Army of the Potomac by General Joseph Hooker. Having reorganised the army and improved morale, he planned an attack that would take his army to Richmond and end the war. Although faced by an army twice his size, the Confederate commander Robert E. Lee split his forces: Jubal Early was left to hold off Sedgwick's Fredericksburg attack, and 'Stonewall' Jackson was sent with 26,000 men in a wide envelopment around Hooker's right flank. This title details how at dusk on May 2, Jackson's men crashed into the Federal right flank, and how stiffening Federal resistance slowed the Confederate advance the next day.