Kris White's summation was brilliant. It is easy to focus on the tactical significance of a battle without placing it in the proper context of the war. In my opinion, Lee was the Civil War's best 19th-century general - he knew how to fight a set-piece battle. Grant was the first 20th-century general and was playing next level chess.

Great job everyone. Outstanding! This series will live forever for those wanting to understand the Chancellorsville battle. It's more than just Thomas Jonathan Jackson.

Thanks for an absolutely wonderful series! I’m going to watch it all again!

Outstanding before this series it was just a name in a book you have made the battle a vivid memory

Fantastic videos. Makes me understand it even more. Great job guys and Gals

I have learned a ton from you guys, and Chris' wrap-up was very enlightening! Thank you!

Tanks for all from Germany 🙏

Great series, folks! You are keeping our history alive!

What a fantastic series! A big thanks to everyone involved. I have been reading Stephen Sears book during the anniversary and seeing the landscape is just an added bonus to tie it all together and enhance my understanding. Best wishes to all!

Once again quality programs from ABT! Thoroughly enjoyed the Chancellorsville coverage! Thank you all! 👏👏 👏

This was a fantastic series and it was so educational. I agree with Kris White about Lee bleeding his army dry. He used old school tactics and, as I study the Civil War, have come to hate frontal assaults. They do nothing but lose men.

Absolutely wonderful, great insight on such a complex and misunderstood battle. Thanks, all, truly great!

Fabulous series on Chancellorsville. I learned a ton. I loved the way you summed it up in this episode - puts the battle in proper context and it was way bloodier than I realized. Excellent work!

I think this might be one of the best series of videos. I never really understood this battle, but after watching so much clearer now. Actually seeing the flank march in real time is something else. Thank you so much

Love the Kris and Chris tag team! Great job as always guys!

Great informative presentation from the Pros!! Thanks…I learned a lot 🙏🙏

Thanks!

@AmericanBattlefieldTrust

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Thank you Chris!

Great series, I learned so much more about The Battle of Chancellorsville through these videos. Thank you!

Absolutely fantastic!! Thank y’all so much! Thoroughly enjoyed this series.

Thanks team !

Dr. Mack, you & your team have done an amazing job on this series. Thank y'all so very much! I'm blessed to be able to tell my grandkids what I've learned from you, then take them to the very spot you speak about.

Absolutely fabulous job! I especially loved the summing up portion at the end. In fact, I heard some of the best summaries and analysis of the entire Civil War at the end of this video. Kudos to all involved, especially to Kris White for his summary at the end.

Great series! Glad to see this battle getting some love

Thank you for this series

Again. Well Done. Great job explaining. Best Show on KZread. I kinda miss Gary. But very much enjoyed the Show. 😊

@AmericanBattlefieldTrust

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Thank you "Super Dave" ! Garry will return!

Thank you all!

Great series all!!!

Loved all the vids so well put Great stuff

Since y’all are into “what ifs”, Lee just needed Longstreet’s remaining divisions to arrive on May 4th🤙

Had a great visit last Friday. We finished our tour at the Fredericksburg National Cemetery. Tough to know that a relative is stacked four or five deep in a grave.

Beautiful series on Chancellorsville.I just ordered "That Furious Struggle" by C.M.&K.D.W. and consider my small monthly contributions to the ABT to be money well spent.

Most brilliant tactical move in entire war by either side

Was there last week, the video’s definitely helped me understand what happened and where to look.

Well done! Great presentation, especially the broader picture outside of Jackson's role. Lee's (South's) casualties reflect an unequivocal "Lost Cause" 3rd tenet truth though, that the North had a numerical advantage in ALL war-making elements and could replace their losses far beyond the South's capabilities.

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The biggest loss in this Battle was the loss of Stonewall Jackson. Lee never recovered.

@gregorybaltzer2736

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Giving years of thought on this, I do believe if Jackson had lived the Gettysburg battle would have been a southern victory..however, I don't think they would've had enough resources to push on to Washington thusly being vulnerable..vicksburg loss the same day, precarious..I can only see more unwanted bloodshed and the war dragging on longer if the south had won at Gettysburg..jmo

The new mics are a game changer. i almost cant remember all the wind noise. hahahaha

Yes Hooker was a failure here but Lee lost 25% of his army. He couldn’t afford that loss. All the North really had to do is keep whittling him down and since Lee was reckless with his troops that wasn’t a hard task. The claim Lee would have “annihilated” the Army of the Potomac being so outnumbered is simply not possible

@michaelmorgan9824

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A very interesting take.

@robertm.9633

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True, if you completely take politics out of the equation.

@joelapp

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@@robertm.9633 I accept that idea. The war of attrition wasn’t popular I’m sure but it resulted in the North’s victory. I think my main point is the claim that Lee was this awesome technician while he destroyed his army when his nation couldn’t replace his men is overstated.

@delnunley7026

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Lee was unmatched at that time and did more than any other general could have done. He won the battle but didn’t really gain anything. The federal army was still alive and well and Lee just didn’t have the manpower. Hooker could have won the battle but was a general needing someone to command him. He wasn’t a leader like Lee or Grant. They were humble and understood the terrible loss of war but could lead men. Imagine what would have happened had Lee accepted Lincoln and took command of the federal army.

@joelapp

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@@delnunley7026 I really don’t think Lee was as concerned about the deaths of his men as people pretend he was. Or he wouldn’t have sent them into a frontal assault time after time

In reference to the discussion of who dragged the guns off the battlefield, Maj St Claire Mullholland 116th Pennsylvania Irish Brigade was awarded the CMH for his actions on May 5.The brigade supported the Maine artillery and suffered 100 casualties

Damn, look at the traffic behind you on Rt 3.

I have often wondered about it raining after a big battle. Im guessing because of all the sulfur and gunpowder that was in the air

Great series with lots of neat detailed information! However, the veiled and not so veiled criticism of Lee is interesting. That fighting the specter of the Legend of R.E. Lee remains an aim of some historians seems so "last century." To be truly useful to even the casual viewer the comparisons of Grant and Lee in this concluding video must necessarily mention, even in passing, that Grant and Lee had very different assets and resources, strategic goals, and problems. It was probably necessary for Lee to completely destroy a Union army in the field. The Union, on the other hand, had to destroy the Confederacy's means of production and occupy territory. These are different propositions. I'm confident both Lee and Grant and Lincoln all understood this. Jefferson Davis? not so much.

HUZZAH for the 140th Pa!

At 5:39, note the white horse in the center of the photo. Gen. Hooker was known to ride a white horse, but it's not likely that horse was his. Today, foundation outlines of the Chancellorsville house are visible, but they do not indicate how large the building actually was. It's a mystery why someone wrote the number '19' next to what looks like a large rock.

McClelland - always certain, seldom correct.

How do you let an army so large just pick up and slip away with 0 intel or recon. Between spies and recon teams I can’t see how this happens.

Wooden Robert Lee no buy pure numbers if a Regiment brigade was over stating their casualty list? Would that be a simple thing to see? I think they were over stating their casualty list. I believe Bobby Lee.

What about the tullahoma campaign the army of the Cumberland pushed Braxton Bragg completely out of Tennessee and into Georgia. Because there was no climatic battle the tulahoma campaign gets no love.

What happened to Gary? He was super passionate on these videos.