Fredericksburg-May 1863 and the Federals break through the Fredericksburg line and attack westward toward Lee's forces at Chancellorsville. Lee sends 10,000 men under McLaws to hold the Federal advance of 20,000. McLaws forms on the ridge line with Salem Church as his center perpendicular to the Federal line of march along Orange Turnpike. A breakthrough at the church but turned by counter attack to hold the line. Lee sends a force the next day to envelope the Federal advance and drives those people across the Rappahannock. Lee's most stunning tactical battle of the war but he is sorely aware that it would have been best to totally defeat them.
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