Chancellorsville, Battle of (1-4 May 1863): Books, Audiobooks, and DVDs owned by Avn Tech Library

Military history and geography converge in this compelling analysis of how terrain affects the way battles are fought and ultimately changes the course of world history.

General Joseph Hooker's attack was calculated to take his army to Richmond and end the war. Faced with an army twice the size of his own, Robert E. Lee split his forces and left Jubal Early to fend off Hooker's Fredericksburg attack, whilst "Stonewall" Jackson was sent to take the Federal right flank by surprise. Although Sedgewick was driving Early's small force back at Fredericksburg, when Lee joined forces with Early Hooker was defeated, and forced to withdraw his army across the Rappahannock.

Chancellorsville has long been considered Lee's greatest battlefield success; The Chancellorsville Campaign is the most serious treatment of the entire campaign in over thirty years.

As equally matched in skill as they were opposite in personality, the brash Union Gen. Joseph Hooker boasted of a sure defeat of the reserved Gen. Robert E. Lee. Yet the battle of Chancellorsville stands as Lee's greatest triumph. Chancellorsville stands not just as a pivotal battle of the Civil War but as the personal war between two warriors - stalking, striking, and counter-striking their way to ultimate victory or defeat.

The Civil War is one year old in 1862 when the fifty-five-year-old Robert E. Lee assumes command of the Army of Northern Virginia. Damage them all you can, he exhorts his men. His army, ragtag in uniform and elite in spirit, responds ferociously in one battle after another, from the Seven Days and the Valley Campaign through Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, to the final siege of Richmond and Petersburg.

Complemented by maps and period photographs, this narrative history of the Civil War focuses on some of the war's most significant battles.

Hooker assumed command of an army demoralized by defeat and diminished by desertion. Acting swiftly, the general reorganized his army, routed corruption among quartermasters, improved food and sanitation, and boosted morale by granting furloughs and amnesties. His hour of fame and the test of his military skill came in the May 1863 battle of Chancellorsville. It was one of the Union Army's worst defeats; shortly thereafter Hooker's resignation was accepted

The Greatest Brigade is an exciting journey through the major battles of the Civil War alongside the members of the famed Irish Brigade. The Greatest Brigade is a grand narrative history of these Irishmen who fought in every major battle in the Eastern Theater of the Civil War, including Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Appomattox.

From Antietam to Chancellorville, this is an eyewitness account of the man himself, his ambitious and powerful successes against a poorly led foe which helped to promote an overconfidence that he could go North again, to Gettysburg, and win.

Originally published in 1915, when Jennings Cropper Wise was commandant of the Virginia Military Institute, The Long Arm of Lee has never been surpassed as an authoritative study of the Confederate artillery in the Civil War.

Outnumbered but not outmatched. Outnumbered chronicles fourteen momentous occasions on which a smaller, ostensibly weaker force prevailed in an epochal confrontation. During the U.S. Civil War, Confederate General Robert E. Lee, despite being out positioned and outnumbered more than two to one by Union forces at Chancellorsville, Virginia, hatched an audacious and surprise strategy that caught his enemy completely unawares.

Before the rise of professional academic history, devoted individuals of a literary bent and skilled researchers and chroniclers made a living from writing history. In this example of such a text, Lossing takes an on-the-site approach to the Civil War, visiting and sketching the sites.

master historian gives readers a fresh new picture of the Civil War as it really was. Buell examines three pairs of commanders from the North and South, who met each other in battle. Following each pair through the entire war, the author reveals the human dimensions of the drama and brings the battles to life. 38 b&w photos.

Glatthaar tells how effectively Lee's men served their country and demonstrates just how close the South came to winning the war and why it ultimately lost.