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To: Cleburne
Actually Hooker had a good plan to outflank the Confederates at Chancellorsville but his covering force was routed( I believe his covering force was under the incompetent Burnside).
211 posted on 05/23/2002 8:06:28 PM PDT by weikel
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To: weikel
Burnside was a horrible general! Perhaps one of the worst of the war. He botched Spotsylvania so badly it's rather hard to believe. Why he was not removed I cannot know- probably political connections.
214 posted on 05/23/2002 8:24:48 PM PDT by Cleburne
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