Chancellorsville

Chancellorsville, a post-station of Spottsylvania county, Virginia, near the south bank of the Rappahannock, 11 miles W. of Fredericksburg. In a desperate battle here, May 2 and 3, 1863, General Lee defeated the Federal forces under Hooker. The Confederates, however, suffered a severe loss in Stonewall Jackson (q.v.), who was accidentally wounded by his own men.