His Supreme Moment
Lee at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863
Again, he had turned disaster into triumph. A day earlier, General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia had faced potential destruction. In the forest thickets west of Fredericksburg, Virginia - near the rural crossroads of Chancellorsville - General Joseph Hooker and the Army of the Potomac had sought to envelop and destroy Lee's army. Hooker's strategy was sound, his army was much larger and better equipped, and he was confident of victory. "My plans are perfect," he had boasted, "and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on General Lee, for I will have none." As Hooker moved to crush Lee's army, however, Lee learned of an unprotected route through the woods that might allow him to unleash a surprise assault on his enemy's right flank. Departing from basic military doctrine - never divide your force in the face of a superior enemy - Lee sent General Stonewall Jackson and 30,000 troops on a day-long forced march to set up the flank attack. It was a dangerous risk: Lee was left with barely 15,000 men to hold off the Federal advance. He deceived and stalled Hooker by feigning an assault - buying the time needed for Jackson to organize and launch his surprise attack.
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