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Article: THE NEW BATTLE OVER CHANCELLORSVILLE DEVELOPER, CIVIL WAR PRESERVATIONISTS AT ODDS OVER TOWN PLAN.(FRONT)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- January 6, 2003
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Byline: LON WAGNER THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
In the spring of 1863, the fields, ridges and woods west of Fredericksburg held the country's focus.
Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Thomas ``Stonewall'' Jackson, two of the most famous men in the world, led a Confederate Army that had been outmaneuvered. The Federal Army stood 130,000 strong. Confederates numbered just 60,000.
Surely, Gen. Joseph Hooker would hammer Lee and Jackson. The Rappahannock River covered his Army's rear, scrubby wilderness protected his western troops and he held strategic high ground.
But Lee was a master strategist and Jackson was so formidable in battle that his mere ...