Chancellorsville's Forgotten Front

The first book-length study of two overlooked engagements that helped turned the tide of a pivotal Civil War battle.   By May of 1863, the stone wall at the base of Marye’s Heights above Fredericksburg, Virginia, loomed large over the Army of the Potomac, haunting its men with memories of slaughter from their crushing defeat there the previous December. They would assault it again with a very different result the following spring. This time the Union troops wrested the wall and high ground