Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath

Book Overview

A variety of important but lesser-known dimensions of the Chancellorsville campaign of spring 1863 are explored in this collection of eight original essays. Departing from the traditional focus on generalship and tactics, the contributors address the campaign's broad context and implications and revisit specific battlefield episodes that have in the past been poorly understood.

Chancellorsville was a remarkable victory for Robert E. Lee's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807822752
• ISBN13: 9780807822753
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Krick's Contribution Alone Makes This Book Invaluable

Although I haven't read all of this book, the contribution of Robert Krick, entitled "The Smoothbore Volley that Doomed the Confederacy" is such that it alone, at least to me, makes this an invalualbe book for students of both Jackson and Chancellorsville. For anyone who has been fascinated with the precise reconstruction of a historical event taking place at a defined place, Krick's writing will prove fascinating. No biography of Jackson that I have encountered, even Robertson's, provides as much detail on the circumstances surrounding this tragic occurence. As he points out and is generally known, the monument at Chancellorsville which purports to mark the spot where Jackson was shot on that May, 1863 moonless night is incorreclty placed. Read and take this book with you when visiting the area as the map included will prove of great help.