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Lee countered by moving the bulk of his army westward along modern-day Route 3— where a mighty clash of forces was destined to occur at a twostory brick tavern at a crossroads known as Chancellorsville.
What would ensue would be considered one of Lee’s most brilliant victories—hinging on the famous flank march suggested and executed by General Thomas ‘‘Stonewall” Jackson—in which 32,000 confederates quick marched unseen around Hooker’s right flank. Their attack at 5 p.m. on May 2 rolled up an entire corps—Oliver O. Howard’s hapless XI Corps—pushing it back to within sight of the main army now squeezed into a tight perimeter around Chancellorsville.
This would be Jackson’s crowning moment of glory, an unparalleled tactical success but tragically also his final act of command: it is on this day, in the gathering gloom around 9 p.m., that Stonewall was mortally stricken by three shots from his own men—men of the 33rd North Carolina Regiment—who shoot a panicky volley at the general as he returns from a scouting party.
Despite its tactical success, then, Chancellorsville is a Pyrrhic victory for Lee: upon learning of Jackson’s serious wounding, Lee announces to his staff that he has lost his “right arm.” And Lee is right: soon the tide of Southern victory will reach its turning point in the Gettysburg Campaign which lies just ahead for Lee.
The Blue Ridge Civil War
See TABLE, Page A7
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