Saturday, May 4, 2013

Hooker Decides to Withdraw from Chancellorsville

Monday, May 4, 1863

In the evening General Joseph Hooker held a war council with his officers and decided to move the army across the Rappahannock River to Falmouth.1

References:
1Winthrop Dudley Sheldon The "Twenty-Seventh," : A Regimental History (New Haven, Connecticut: Morris and Benham, 1866), 69.

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