Union wins battle of Chancellorsville

Anaxagoras

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Lee falls back to North Anna River and is reinforced by Longstreet's corps coming up from southeastern Virginia.
 
Lee falls back to North Anna River and is reinforced by Longstreet's corps coming up from southeastern Virginia.

But wasn't the Federal Plan based on a Successful pursuit of the Confederates when Lee was suppose to fall back when Federal Calvary cut Lee Logistical and Communications.
 
It depends primarily on how exactly the Union achieved such a victory, since their is numerous examples and time for such a victory that appeared during the duration of the battle.

The Federal Tactical Strategy developed by Hooker relied heavily on the newly developed Federal Calvary arm to slid to the Left of Confederate positions and cut Lee's Logistical and Communications thus causing Lee to fall back and with Federals Corps in his left and right flanks tear into the Confederates when they abandoned their defense fortifications.

Now do to the infective nature of the Calvary arm and its commanders lead to infective damage to Confederate rail lines that was easily repaired thus leading to the Battle itself.

Now their is so many times that the Union could had achieved a victory that i can not accurately remember them all to write them down.

But suffice to say that the more chances that appeared as the battle progressed left more and ore chances for a devastating victory for the Union over the Confederates and Lee as the battle went on.

Making it more and more likely that the AONV would insure heavy losses with massive sections captured our outright destroyed, Chancellorsville was truly the Biggest what if of the entire war for the Union.
 
That's the POD for my book "Brotherhood and Baseball." In going over the many different scenarios I found that there were a number of ways they could have won. And, indeed, Lee and Longstreet could havemet up at North Anna and knocked the Union back. Some of that, of course, depends on if Hooker is still in charge, and (not to spoil it or anything;)) whether one considers that he was losing faith in his plan before the concussion; or, if the concussion was worse, and Couch had to piece together that "disjointed army," woudl this hurt the AoTP, or strengthen their resolve, so they feel the need to "win one for the Hooker.":D) (No, thankfully, I do not use that pun - but if that were to become an ATL cliche...:eek:) And, if you really need a spoiler to get your mind off of a Leslie Nielsen character saying that...
Couch stood for a moment, the others around him. He didn’t notice their inquisitive looks. The burden of putting together a disjointed army in the middle of a battle had given way to a firm resolution to let Howard’s attempt to soften the blow become a promise. He barked a decisive, emotion-laden, “Let’s win, men!”

Okay, enough shameless plug;), part would then depend on whether they try to launch into Richmond right away or lay siege then. The war coudl end 18 months early (there'd still need to be stuff done in the West and probably in Georgia) but if there's a long siege another year is possible for the war. And, I suppose retreat is even possible after a really decisive ANV victory at North Anna by lee, though he likely won't feel like pulling a Northern invasion, as there will be no "victory disease."
 
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