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Key Battles of the Civil War

Episode 10: The Battle of Chancellorsville

Key Battles of the Civil War

Key Battles of the Civil War

Society & Culture

4.7696 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The Battle of Chancellorsville is considered Robert E. Lee’s masterpiece.  His reputation as a military genius was sealed by fighting an incredibly successful offensive battle despite being outnumbered 2-to-1 and launching attacks on multiple...

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The Civil War was the most important event in American history.

0:59.7

That's because it decided what kind of nation America would be

1:02.9

and whether or not the promise of universal liberty would really be fulfilled.

1:07.2

And what decided the outcome of the Civil War was its battles.

1:11.4

Welcome to the key battles in the Civil War podcast.

1:28.5

In the last episode, we looked at the Battle of Frederick's Verde. Hi, everyone, welcome back to our series on the most important battles in the Civil War.

1:31.8

On the last episode, we looked at the Battle of Fredericksburg.

1:34.9

The union suffered a humiliating loss.

1:42.0

McClellan, the general, had been swapped out for another general, Burnside, who in turn was swapped out with Hooker.

1:45.1

So the union is really entering its low point. It's sort of like Britain after Dunkirk and World War II before it's able to start to go on the offensive. So

1:51.4

things are going poorly for the union. And we're going to be looking at the next stage in the

1:56.4

Civil War with Chancellorsville. But before we do that, we want to do a brief excursus and look at Civil War medicine and disease.

2:03.2

And I think this is a good topic because when you see pictures of the Civil War, a lot of times it's a group of soldiers standing together looking stony-faced at the camera.

2:14.2

But if you ever see camps or injured soldiers, it doesn't look like what you would see

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