Hooker's Final Bastion The Battle of Chancellorsville - Chancellorsville VA
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Don.Morfe
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After suffering defeat in the massive fighting on May 3, Hooker's army started digging. The result: a powerful, U-shaped line six miles long supported by 100 cannons.
Waymark Code: WM1346Z
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 09/11/2020
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Hooker's Final Bastion-The Battle of Chancellorsville— Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park —The low earthworks opposite are the apex of the final Union line at Chancellorsville. After suffering defeat in the massive fighting on May 3, Hooker's army started digging. The result: a powerful, U-shaped line six miles long supported by 100 cannons, and made of "logs, knapsacks, dead horses, limber-chests and whatever came to hand." For two days Federal troops quietly held these works.
Despite the strength of the Union line, and despite having just 35,000 men on hand for action, Lee decided to attack the Union position on May 6. But Hooker never gave him the chance. On the night of May 5, the Union commander relinquished the virtually impregnable position and led his army back across the Rappahannock. It was perhaps his greatest mistake of the campaign.
LOCATION: Marker is near Chancellorsville, Virginia, in Spotsylvania County. Marker is at the intersection of Elys Ford Road (County Route 610) and Bullock Road, on the right when traveling south on Elys Ford Road. Located at the Bullock House Site, stop two of the driving tour of Chancellorsville Battlefield. Postal address: 9024 Elys Ford Rd, Fredericksburg VA 22407
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