General Joseph Hooker had called a halt to his advance of the previous day with the aim of encouraging a Confederate attack that could be repulsed from entrenched positions in the woods of "the Wilderness." He got more than he had bargained for when a brilliant flanking movement by General "Stonewall" Jackson destroyed General Otis Howard's XI Corps on the Union right in the early evening. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Stephen W. Sears, Chancellorsville (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996), 271-281.
Record Data
Date Certainty
Exact
Type
Battles/Soldiers
