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Title: Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac;
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Swinton, William, 1833-1892
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Army of the Potomac. (from old catalog) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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paign thus brilliantly opened. Now, asthese circumstances furnish the key to the right apprecia-tion of the whole action, I shall, in the succeeding chapter,set them forth with some fulness of detail. Til. AT CHANCELLORSVILLE—FRIDAY. When, on Thursday night. Hooker had concentrated hisfour corps at Chancellorsville, the real character of the move-ment, which, up to that point, had been so admirably con-cealed from his antagonist, became fully disclosed. TheConfederate leader saw that the demonstrations near Fred-ericksburg that had engaged his attention were but a mask,and that the turn of afiairs called for the promptest action.Lee, with instant perception of the situation, now seized themasses of his force, and with the grasp of a Titan swungthem into position as a giant might fling a mighty stone from Map of the r,A\fTtli,©>r/CHLAJ€iUi©)RWIllt-lLi . f„ ^IL29tli.TO ^Scale ofMi/fs FROM APRIL29tli.TO MAY 5th. 1863.^** g.,. Rjii^eretices.= = i^nivn Linef!— - Cortfederate -
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THE CHANCELLORSVILLE CAMPAIGN. 277 a sling.* One division and one brigade—the division ofEarly and the brigade of Barksdale—were intrusted with theduty of holding the heights of Fredericksburg ; and, at mid-night of Thursday, Jackson and McLaws, and the rest of hisdivisions, recalled from Fredericksbm-g, and from far belowFredericksburg, were put in motion towards Chancellorsvilleto meet Hooker with a fiont of opposition, before he shouldbe able, by advancing fiom Chancellorsville, to seize thedirect Confederate communications with Richmond. If the Confederate commander was able to efiect this pur-pose, it was because the Union commander allowed him so todo; and this voluntary act on the part of the latter devolvesupon him the responsibility for all the consequences flowingtherefiom. Chancellors\-iUe, where Hooker had drawn up his forces,hes ten miles west and south of Fredericksburg, with whichit is connected by two excellent roads—the one macadamized,the other planked. It stan

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