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Chancellorsville Campaign - May 1-6, 1863

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Map of the battle of Chancellorsville, VA, by Robert Know Sneden, 1860s - Library of Congress

Army of the Potomac - Major General Joseph Hooker


First Corps - Major General John F. Reynolds


Second Division – Brigadier General John C. Robinson


Third Brigade - Colonel Samuel H. Leonard

13th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment – Lt. Colonel N. Walter Batchelder

83rd New York Infantry Regiment  - Lt. Colonel Joseph A. Moesch

97th New York Infantry Regiment  - Colonel Charles Wheelock

11th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment - Colonel Richard Coulter

88th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment  - Colonel Louis Wagner

* Source - Civil War In The East

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A Pennsylvania Infantry camp on Belle Plain, Virginia, is pictured was taken, three weeks before the Battle of Chancellorsville Timothy O'Sullivan Library of Congress

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Battle of Chancellorsville by Kurz and Allison -General Stonewall Jackson is shot by his own men - Library of Congress

Out of 133,868 Union troops engaged 1,606 soldiers were killed,  9,672 soldiers
were wounded, 5,919 missing & captured for a total of  17,197.  The I Corps suffers only 135 total casualties, The Eighty-Eighth suffers 2  wounded while being used in a mostly defensive operation.

Out of  60,892 Confederate  troops engaged, 1,665 soldiers were  killed, 9,081 soldiers were wounded, 2,018 missing & captured, for a total  of 13,303.

The  Battle of Chancellorsville was a Confederate Victory
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Battle of Chancellorsville - Civil War Trust

Battle of Chancellorsville - CWSAC Battle Summary

Chancellorsville Battlefield - National Park Service
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