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📢 Narrated by David McCallion

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

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🖼 Image credits:
Battle of Fredericksburg--the 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. LC-USZC4-1757) https://lccn.loc.gov/91482051

Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. Dec 13th 1862 - LC-DIG-pga-06131 (digital file from original item) LC-USZC4-3365 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-1649 (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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