Union and Confederate forces clash at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. The battle pitted the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by General Joseph Hooker, against a Confederate Army of Northern Virginia half the size of its Union counterpart.
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