Lee's Greatest Victory Lee's Greatest Defeat: the Battle of Chancellorsville (2024)

Often viewed as one of the most resounding victories in the annals of military history, Chancellorsville was truly one of Robert E. Lee's greatest achievements. Yet in the ashes of the Wilderness of Virginia lay more than 13,000 of Lee's men, a wrecked chain-of-command, and a lost opportunity to finish off the Army of the Potomac once and for all. Was Chancellorsville Lee's greatest victory of was it the beginning of the end for the Army of Northern Virginia?

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