Confederate General Robert E. Lee secures a Confederate victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville as his Army of Northern Virginia defeats the much larger Union Army of the Potomac. Following the loss of Stonewall Jackson, Lee's army attacked a larger force at Chancellorsville and held off a Union advance at Fredericksburg in the second bloodiest day of the Civil War.
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