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Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath. Edited by Gary W. Gallagher. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,1996. Pp. xvi, 263. $29.95.)
Chancellorsville is considered Lee's masterpiece, aside the butcher's bill of 22 percent for the Army of Northern Virginia, which was of momentous consequences for the remainder of the war (xi). In Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath, editor Gary Gallagher and seven accomplished historians (John J. Hennessy, A. Wilson Greene, Robert K. Krick, Carol Reardon, James I. Robertson Jr., Keith S. Bohannon, and James Marten) examine "less well known dimensions of the campaign, new evidence, new interpretations" (xii). These eight essays, averaging twenty-nine pages each, examine personalities who weighed the dangers and hopes of their participation.
These discussions begin with Hennessy's overview of Joseph Hooker's Army of the Potomac on...