THE SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF CHANCELLORSVILLE.
BY ALFRED RLE ASONTON, BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL, U. S. A.
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UNION CAVALRY-MAN'S HAT.
"N the latter part of April, 1863, General Hookerdecided to undertake an offensive campaign withthe Army of the Potomac against the Army of North-ern Virginia, under General Lee . At this time thetwo armies faced each other: Lee ’s, numbering about60,000 men, being at Fredericksburg , and the Armythe Potomac, numbering about 130,000 men, at Falmouth, on the north sideof the Rappahannock River opposite Fredericksburg . Hooker directedthree corps of the army, the First, the Third, and the Sixth, comprising59,000 men, under the command of General Sedgwick, to cross the Rapp a 'bannock River below Fredericksburg and hold Lee ’s army in that position)while he himself moved secretly and with celerity three corps, the Fifth)the Eleventh, and the Twelfth, numbering 42,000 men, up the river, cross-ing it and concentrating them at Chancellorsville, ten miles west of Fred-ericksburg, with the purpose of moving down upon General Lee ’s army t°take it in rear and flank—two divisions of the Second Corps being placedto cover Banks’s Ford , the third division being left at Falmouth, while abrigade and battery were stationed at United States Ford to facilitate tb®crossing. The Cavalry Corps, with the exception of one small brigadeof three regiments and a battery of horse artillery, which was left unde 1my command with the army, was ordered under the command of Gen-eral Stoneman to make a raid in rearof Lee ’s army, and destroy his railroadsand his communications with Richmond. J
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PARADE AT FALMOUTH OK THU 110TII PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH.
This regiment (of Whipple* division, Third Corps) with the 84th Peimsylvimin performed desperate service Iir;i
Fnirview on Sunday morning, May 3d, the 84th losing 215 men and the 110th losing 45 men.— Editors-
J This corps did great service by drawing off Gen- that they passed between Stuart and Lee’seral Lee ’s cavalry, under General .T. E. B. Stuart, and Stuart could not get through to eomtnun 1 ®to Brandy Station and Culpeper, thus depriving to Loo what was going on. It will bo seen later^General Lee of their services ; for General Hooker what a loss this was to Loo, and what a great ^moved the three corps with him with such celerity vantage it was to tho Army of the Potomac.