Many historians consider the 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville to be Confederate General Robert E. Lee's greatest victory. Facing a Union Army more than twice the size of his own, Lee divided his ...

Historians talked about the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863, considered to be General Robert E. Lee's greatest victory. Initially, Union General Joseph Hooker planned to envelop the Confederate ...

May 6th marked the 150th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Chancellorsville which started on April 30, 1863. The campaign pitted Union Army Major General Joseph Hooker’s Army ...

The Battle of Chancellorsville, fought from April 30 until May 6, 1863 in Spotsylvania County, will be discussed at 7 p.m. Jan. 16 at the Chesapeake Central Library.

No man proved a more worthy opponent to Ulysses S. Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child of Colonel Henry Lee and Ann Hill Carter on January 19, 1807. Lee's ...

A year after New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu proposed removing a famous 132-year-old statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee—and a half year after the city council voted to do so—the battle ...

At around 5:30 on the evening of May 2, 1863, the soldiers of the Union Army's 11th Corps were taking it easy. Three miles to the east, their comrades were fighting Robert E. Lee's Confederate ...

Some 8,000 re-enactors from the Blue Gray Alliance are participating in events marking the 150th anniversary of the July 1-3, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern ...

The Battle of Brandy Station happened about a month after the Battle of Chancellorsville, which lasted from April 30 to May 6. That battle in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, was a Confederate ...

The cruiser is named after the 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, which, despite heavy casualties, is considered Gen. Robert E. Lee's greatest victory in the war.