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Definition of Chancellorsville
1. Noun. A village in northeastern Virginia.
Group relationships: Old Dominion, Old Dominion State, Va, Virginia
2. Noun. A major battle in the American Civil War (1863); the Confederates under Robert E. Lee defeated the Union forces under Joseph Hooker.
Group relationships: American Civil War, United States Civil War, War Between The States
Geographical relationships: Old Dominion, Old Dominion State, Va, Virginia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chancellorsville
Literary usage of Chancellorsville
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"Half past Chancellorsville, were ordered into battery across the road form Taj
... Artillery was also hi urd in the direction of Chancellorsville. ..."
2. Fighting by Southern Federals: In which the Author Places the Numerical by Charles Carter Anderson (1912)
"BATTLE of Chancellorsville, Va., May 1st to 4th, 1863. The Army of the Potomac
marched east of Chancellorsville a few miles May 1st. ..."
3. Southern History of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1865)
"... I. Review of the Battle of Chancellorsville.—Two Defects in the Victory of
... battles fought between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, on the 1st, ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"Battle of Chancellorsville.—Death of Jackson. \ (er [l863 right, and by an
impetuous attack threw it into violent disorder. Gradually, during the next four ..."
5. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1899)
"Meanwhile the Second Corps under Couch had crossed the river at the United States
ford and had reached Chancellorsville. There on the night of April 30 four ..."
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