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After holding his entrenched positions all the previous day, General Hooker considered the Chancellorsville battlefield now untenable and ordered a withdrawal back across the Rappahannock and Rapidan Rivers. Sedgwick and already crossed in the pre-dawn hours and Hooker's main force followed in late evening and early morning hours of May 6, 1863. The four days of the engagement had cost 30,000 Union and Confederate soldiers death, wounds, or capture. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Daniel E. Sutherland, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: The Dare Mark Campaign (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska, 1998), 176-179.
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Battles/Soldiers
