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Narrated by David McCallion

Many thanks to Professor Andrew J. Mitchell for his excellent research and writing.

Big shout to Saris from Warhawk YouTube channel for creating the storyboard! He has an amazing indepth series on the ACW    / @warhawkyt  

Image credits:
Battle of Fredericksburgthe Army o.t. Potomac crossing the Rappahannock in the morning of Dec. 13' 1862, under t. comd. of Gen's Burnside, Sumner, Hooker & Franklin Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. LCUSZC41757) https://lccn.loc.gov/91482051

Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. Dec 13th 1862 LCDIGpga06131 (digital file from original item) LCUSZC43365 (color film copy transparency) LCUSZ621649 (b&w film copy neg.) https://lccn.loc.gov/90709058


Sources:
Gary Gallagher, Chancellorsville: The Battle & Its Aftermath. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).

T. Glenn Pait and Matthew Helton, “The crippled brain that prolonged the Civil War: General Joseph Hooker’s concussions at Chancellorsville.” Journal of Neurosurgery. 53: 3. (September 2002), https://doi.org/10.3171/2022.6.FOCUS2....

Stephen W. Sears, Chancellorsville. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996).

Carl Smith, Chancellorsville: Jackson’s Lightning Strike. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004).

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