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The Civil War & Reconstruction

#269 CHANCELLORSVILLE (Part the Twelfth)

The Civil War & Reconstruction

Richard Youngdahl

History

4.84.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In which the Confederate forces of Jeb Stuart & Robert E Lee capture the Chancellorsville intersection after furious fighting on the morning of May 3, 1863.

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0:30.0

Hey everyone, welcome to episode 269 of our Civil War podcast.

0:35.8

My name is Rich.

0:37.4

And I'm Tracy.

0:38.4

Hello y'all.

0:39.7

Thanks for tuning into the podcast.

0:42.4

At 8.50 on the morning of Sunday, May 3rd, 1863, fighting Joe Hooker's Chief of Staff,

0:50.7

Major General Daniel Butterfield, Sunday Telegram to Washington.

0:55.6

It was a message for Abraham Lincoln, and it read,

0:59.3

the not directed or specially authorized to do so by General Hooker.

1:04.0

I think it not improper that I should advise you that a battle is in progress.

1:09.9

Butterfield's message to Lincoln is obviously one of the war's great understatements.

1:15.2

Since by that point, a battle had been in progress at Chancellor'sville for quite some time.

1:21.8

Days earlier, Joe Hooker had proclaimed that his plans were perfect.

1:26.6

Now, however, as he stood on the front porch of the Chancellor House on the morning of May 3rd,

1:32.5

those perfect plans were unraveling before his eyes.

1:37.0

Hooker had spent much of the morning riding his lines, encouraging his troops,

1:42.4

keeping up their spirits, showing everyone why he was fighting Joe.

1:48.1

And the Union soldiers responded with grim determination,

1:52.0

matching charge with countercharge, and going toe to toe with the Confederates,

1:57.4

in savage fighting that would turn those hours after daybreak on May 3rd

2:02.6

into the bloodiest morning of the entire Civil War.

2:06.2

And the second bloodiest single day, second only to Antietam.

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