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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 19. the siege of Suffolk, Virginia. (search)
presence is made in any accounts of Chancellorsville, nor in the Southern history. Jackson contended with Hooker on the first and second of May, while Early fought Sedgwick, near Fredericksburg. On the third, Stewart succeeded Jackson. Hooker's and Lee's forces. Up to the meeting of Congress, Hooker had made no report to General Halleck, and official data is out of the question. But information is at hand from which an approximation can be made. Lee's Army. New York Tribune, May 18, 1863, estimates 50,000 New York Tribune, March 26, 1861, estimates 49,700 New York Herald, March 26, 1864, estimates 64,000 Southorn history (Pollard's) gives 50,000 Hooker's Army. New York Times gives 159,800 Southorn history gives 100,000 to 150,000 New York Tribune, March 26, 1864, gives 123,300 The editor of the Times had the very best opportunity for getting reliable data, and there are many reasons for accepting his figures as nearest the true ones. This
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), Hooker's and Lee's forces. (search)
Hooker's and Lee's forces. Up to the meeting of Congress, Hooker had made no report to General Halleck, and official data is out of the question. But information is at hand from which an approximation can be made. Lee's Army. New York Tribune, May 18, 1863, estimates 50,000 New York Tribune, March 26, 1861, estimates 49,700 New York Herald, March 26, 1864, estimates 64,000 Southorn history (Pollard's) gives 50,000 Hooker's Army. New York Times gives 159,800 Southorn history gives 100,000 to 150,000 New York Tribune, March 26, 1864, gives 123,300 The editor of the Times had the very best opportunity for getting reliable data, and there are many reasons for accepting his figures as nearest the true ones. This paper explodes the idea that any material portion of Longstreet's army was transferred to the fields of Chancellorsville. No such theory is entertained in any quarter now; but in the smoke of that disaster it was mooted. These figures