Stonewall Jackson's Flank Attack at Chancellorsville PART 2: Chancellorsville 160

Part two of our exploration of Stonewall Jackson's famed flank attack at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863. After a 12-mile march around the front of the Union Army, Jackson stacked nearly 31,000 men on the Federal right flank and rolled up Oliver Otis Howard's 11th Army Corps. High drama played out in the fields and forests of the "Wilderness" near Chancellorsville. Visit the land recently preserved by the American Battlefield Trust and the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust. Join Chris Mackwoski, Steward Henderson, Tom Van Winkle, and Kris White for an examination of this famed assault.
This video is part of our coverage commemorating the 160th Anniversary of the Battle of Chancellorsville. View the entire tour series here: • Chancellorsville: 160t...
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[@jdr26th]

Peter Ripplinger, co. G 26th Wisconsin Infantry. Wounded. He is my 4th grandfather. Walked the route of Jackson with the 26th NC Regt. Reenactor. Great work, and thank you.

[@DA-bp8lf]

Kris, Chris and Steward. thank you gentlemen!! Good stuff!! 👍👏👏👏

[@dadsongs]

This series has been amazing! Thank you!

[@Suppercamper]

This is a very good series of videos. Thanks!

[@frankofva8803]

Truly great series of videos.

[@mattpiepenburg8769]

Fantastic series! And special thanks for the conservation efforts to preserve the land of the flank attack.

[@waynesigmon5628]

My great-great-grandfather serve with the 12th North Carolina Wounded on May 2nd 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville return to service January of 64 present at Appomattox I am very proud of my ancestors

[@anthonyjohnson1058]

You're proud that your ancestors fought for the worst cause that man has ever fought for

[@nh_highlander1985]

It pleasures my heart to see real history being taught. 👍

[@tinaphillips7239]

The music in the beginning is awesome! Needs to be a soundtrack.

[@mattwilliams3260]

Thanks guys!

[@triciafair2325]

Adelman know you guys are doing this without him?😂

[@timfrye3586]

bloody marvelous!

[@terryeustice5399]

Another great video. Thanks! 💯👊

[@mikedurham1103]

Thanks!

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

Cool thanks Mike!

[@nathanalmond8280]

Great job on the video. I'm from Locust Grove and I know the area well.

[@sethmaxfield6658]

"Resident Jackson worshipper" 🤣

[@1101millie97]

Imagine how much more devastation Jackson could have wreaked on Hooker's army if Jackson had just a few more hours of daylight....

[@jorgemartinpaez4376]

The site of Jackson's famous surprise attack on the 145ny and the 44th NY, the 11 Corps XI is forced to a fall back not so much like God's and generals, the XI falls back to a position, interesting!

[@jackhays1194]

👏🏼👏🏼

[@jorgemartinpaez4376]

Some 11th corps were threatened by swords and pistols, csa some are captured... In the attack, 72,000 federals are fed up with the salient, and battle continues the next day!! Interesting 26 wis inf Not all the XI ran for their lives 58 ny Inf, 62 il Inf retreat stop to fight w the third III Corps.

[@cjm2968]

Major General Joseph Hooker, Major General Oliver Howard, and Captain Hubert “Leatherbritches” Dilger, the Union Champions of Chancellorsville, who were supposedly defeated there, went on to a very illustrious military career after that battle. About a year later, at Pine Mountain, Georgia on June 14, 1874 all three played a part in the killing of the “The Bishop” General Polk. General Sherman himself was down below and spotted the group of Rebel officers, Johnston, Hardee and Polk. "How saucy they are!" General Howard remembered Sherman saying. Sherman ordered nearby batteries to open fire. A Prussian soldier nicknamed "Leatherbritches" Dilger fired his 12-pounder cannon, killing Bishop Polk as he stood on the crest of the mountain. Interesting note is that Dilger received the Medal of Honor for his performance at Chancellorsville that caused another delay for Stonewall Jackson. Jackson was already running late because of his late start from oversleeping that day in May 1963 according to my friends at the Trust.

[@Fixingtodraw]

Wow the union leader was suicidal. Those poor soldiers

[@jorgemartinpaez4376]

Gen George Gordon Meade was a great general the 5th corps was in the battle, and the 3rd regroup to steem the confederates rebels?

[@jorgemartinpaez4376]

So it's was not such a surprise but it was a neglected intelligence? As the attack came! Then a series of grey and butternut emerge from the woods and hills w a rebel yell! YEEEEAEer hea!

[@OldePete]

Jackson's brilliance or 11th Cops command: Xenophobic to a fault? It's almost as if the 11th was posted on the flank to act as a buffer/expendable/"cannon fodder" for the rest of the army.

[@jorgemartinpaez4376]

Oliver Otis Howard the XI corps the 🌛

[@bradleyungles8605]

Resident jackson worshiper😂