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Part of American Civil War

Battle of Chancellorsville

April 30 – May 6, 1863 · Chancellorsville, Virginia

Result Confederate victory

Confederate General Robert E. Lee divided his smaller army in the face of a much larger Union force and won a major victory on 30 April – 6 May 1863, the principal engagement of the Chancellorsville campaign. The triumph cost the Confederacy Lt. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, mortally wounded by friendly fire and dead of pneumonia eight days later — a loss Lee likened to losing his right arm.

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Union

Confederacy

United States
Confederate States of America
George Meade Daniel Sickles Major General, Commander of the III Corps Henry W. Slocum Major General, Commander of the XII Corps Oliver O. Howard Major General, Commander of the XI Corps Joseph Hooker Major General, Commander of the Army of the Potomac
Robert E. Lee Stonewall Jackson mortally wounded J. E. B. Stuart Major General, Commander of the cavalry; took over II Corps after Jackson was wounded

Strength and losses

Strength
97,38297,382, 130,000
Casualties
14,000
Killed
1,5751,600
Wounded
9,5949,800
Missing
5,6766,000
Guns
404
Guns lost
120
Strength
57,35257,352, 80,000
Casualties
10,000
Killed
1,6651,700
Wounded
9,0819,100
Missing
2,0182,000
Guns
170
Guns lost
7

Units

Army of the Potomac Strength c. 106,000 · c. 106,000 in the battle proper; 133,868 is the campaign total including Sedgwick's wing at Fredericksburg Joseph Hooker Major general · 1863 Cavalry Corps (Union Army) George Stoneman Major general · 1863 I Corps (Union Army) John F. Reynolds Major general · 1862–1863 Iron Brigade Solomon Meredith Brigadier general · 1862–1863 II Corps (Union Army) Darius N. Couch Major general · 1863 Irish Brigade (Union Army) Thomas Francis Meagher Brigadier general · 1862–1863 III Corps (Union Army) Daniel Sickles Major general · 1863 V Corps (Union Army) George Meade Major general · 1863
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20th Maine Infantry Regiment VI Corps (Union Army) John Sedgwick Major general · 1863–1864 XI Corps (Union Army) Oliver O. Howard Major general · 1863 XII Corps (Union Army) Henry W. Slocum Major general · 1862–1863 147th Regiment (United States) 14th Infantry Regiment (United States) 1st Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment 4th Infantry Regiment (United States) 7th Indiana Infantry Regiment 1st U.S. Artillery, Battery E
Army of Northern Virginia Strength c. 60,298 Robert E. Lee General · 1862–1865 First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia Longstreet detached in southeastern Virginia since February 26, 1863; Lee commanded the remnant directly James Longstreet Lieutenant general · 1862–1864 Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia Stonewall Jackson Lieutenant general · 1862–1863 A. P. Hill Major general · 1863 A. P. Hill's Light Division A. P. Hill Major general · 1862–1863 11th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 1st Virginia Cavalry Regiment 2nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment 31st Virginia Infantry Regiment
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3rd Virginia Cavalry Regiment 4th North Carolina Infantry Regiment 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 5th Virginia Cavalry Regiment

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