BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Chancellorsville Natl Battlefield -- Lick Run Battlefield (First Day at Chancellorsville)

VA -- Chancellorsville Natl Battlefield -- Lick Run Battlefield (First Day at Chancellorsville):

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. LICKRN_070617_04.JPG: The Union troops came from the direction of the camera. The Confederate troops confronting them came from the distance. The road here is Orange Turnpike, modern Route 3.
2. LICKRN_070617_14.JPG: The list of contributors for the land.
3. LICKRN_070617_26.JPG: First Day at Chancellorsville Lee Seizes the Initiative You are standing where the Battle of Chancellorsville began. On May 1, 1863, Union Gen. Joseph Hooker ordered three columns to advance eastward on three roads: the River Road a mile to your left, the Plank Road a mile to your right, and the Orange Turnpike (present day Route 3) to your immediate right. His goal was to move out of the Wilderness -- a cut-over tangle of scrub trees and dense undergrowth that sometimes limited visibility to a few feet -- and unite the columns on the open high ground a mile in front of you. When Union Gen. George Syke's infantry division arrived here on the turnpike from behind you, it encountered Confederate Gen. Lafayette McLaws's division approaching with Gen. William Mahone's brigade in the lead. Behind Mahone, Confederate artillery opened up on the advancing Federal regiments under Col. Sydney Burbank, and Union gunners to your rear returned fire. As the infantrymen clashed just ahead, part of Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's corps threatened Sykes's right flank. In mid-afternoon, Hooker ordered his forces to retreat and entrench near the Chancellor House two miles behind you. The First Day at Chancellorsville produced more than 500 casualties, deprived Hooker of the open high ground, and put him on the defensive in the Wilderness thickets. It also enabled Gen. Robert E. Lee to take the offensive. To learn more about what happened here at the pivot point of the Chancellorsville Campaign, please take the walking tour that begins ahead.
4. LICKRN_070617_29.JPG: Chancellorsville Campaign: Lee's Greatest Victory: After the Union defeat at Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln replaced Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside in January 1863 with the aggressive Gen. Joseph Hooker. At the end of April, Hooker sent most of the Army of the Potomac westward, leaving two corps in Fredericksburg under Gen. John Sedgwick. Hooker intended to crush Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia between the two Federal wings. Lee detected Hooker's maneuver and shifted most of his army westward to meet the threat. On May 1, Hooker's and Lee's advanced elements collided here. The Confederates pushed the Union troops backs to Chancellorsville, where the Federals dug in for a defensive battle. Lee and his principal lieutenant, Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, took the offensive the next morning. Jackson marched around the Union army, attacked Hooker's vulnerable right flank, and forced the Federals back toward the Rappahannock River. Darkness halted the fighting, but that night, Jackson was badly wounded as he reconnoitered between the lines. On May 3, Sedgwick's corps broke through the weakened Confederate line at Fredericksburg. Holding Hooker at bay, Lee sent reinforcements to Salem Church, where Sedgwick was stopped the next day. By May 5, Hooker was in full retreat and the Battle of Chancellorsville, perhaps Lee's greatest victory, was over. It cost Lee his best general, however, when Jackson died on May 10. Having seized the initiative, Lee embarked on his second invasion of the North -- an invasion that would end at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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