Chancellorsville Staff Ride Briefing Book

Although "Fighting Joe" Hooker skillfully executes a well-conceived plan and out-flanks his adversary, months of offensive planning are shelved as he suddenly orders his army on the defensive.

Lee seizes the initiative and achieves what has often been called his most brilliant victory.

How could this happen when Hooker's army outnumbers that of Lee 2 to 1 and is far superior in artillery and logistics?

Answers to these and other questions concerning leadership, communications, use of terrain, and the psychology of men in battle, are often found by personal reconnaissance of the battlefield.

This book offers a staff ride briefing of Chancellorsville.

Since 1906 staff rides have been used to in the education of U.S.

Army officers to narrow the gap between peacetime training and war.

This volume includes maps, illustrations and appendices. (This is a facsimile reprint originally published by the Army's Center for Military History; it is one generation removed from the original typography.)