Question

Summarize the events of the battle of chancellorsville in your own words

Answer 1

 Best Answer:  You are going to have to look some of this up and the Hamster's sites are good ones, but the main points are these. The south was at a town called Fredricksburg. The north had lost a battle there the previous year and were trying to sneak up on Fredricksburg this time by going another way. Gen. Lee found out about this plan just in time to send most of his army to intercept the northern army. They met at a town called Chancellorsville. The land was full of trees and bushes and so it was very hard to tell where everybody was. The north was surprised by the south and was having a hard time, but they were looking like they might win when Lee sent General Stonewall Jackson to attack the northern army from the side. This "flank" attack is still considered one of the most brilliant attacks in military history. It worked. Jackson ran into the right side of the northern army and pushed them back. Darkness made everyone stop fighting and during the night the northern army went back the way them came. The south won the battle...sadly General Jackson was killed that same evening by his own men who mistook him for a northern scouting patrol.