Chancellorsville+Battlefield

This picture is showing the battlefield of Chancellorsville and the course Major General Joseph Hooker of the Union took. His plan was to trap Lee in Fredricksburg, but Hooker's inexperience led him to a death trap. Lee was anchored in too well for Hooker to win the battle. While Hooker made his way around the river, Lee went to chancellorsville to meet him there unexpectedly. Lee and his men were greatly outnumbered but were able to hold up until help arrived because of Lee's great battle tactics. While Lee was fighting Hooker, General Jackson of the Confederates moved around Hooker to flank them from the right.General Hooker had no idea that Jackson and his army was coming, it was a complete suprise attack. This was an extreme decision by the south that turned the tables on the Union soldiers. Even though the Northern soldiers greatly outnumbered the southerners, they were loosing more soldiers much quicker than the south. These tactics that the intellegiant Confederate Generals used made the Union army retreat. The Battlefield of Chancellorsville took place near an estate and a very large field. The Union army was on the house end of the Chancellorsville house and Lee come from the other end while Jackson and his men came around through the forests to suprise flank The northern army.