The second day of the Chattanooga Campaign proves similar to the first in that the Union again emerges victorious. Today’s Union victory in the Battle of Lookout Mountain is impressive and decisive. In the “battle above the clouds,” U.S. troops, led by General Joseph Hooker, climb the slopes of Lookout Mountain in an effort to…
Bested by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia, Union Gen. Joseph Hooker orders his Army of the Potomac to retreat across the Rappahannock River. The withdrawal continues until the morrow, but the Battle of Chancellorsville is effectively over today. Hooker’s retreat takes Lee by surprise, as he had planned another assault upon the…
During this second day of the Battle of Chancellorsville, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia again outflanks and outfights Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker‘s Army of the Potomac, a force twice the size of Lee’s. Yet this otherwise victorious day for the South ends badly when Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, daring military…