The Chancellorsville Papers, edited and annotated by M. Chris Bryan.
Foreword by legendary historian Robert K. Krick
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Aside from the Official Records volumes, this 2-volume set, totaling 1,110 pages, is the most important primary source collection ever published on the Chancellorsville Campaign.
Volume 1 is full of official documents: The Joseph Hooker Military Papers contains Federal correspondence and reports that are not in the OR as well as messages that were included in the OR but were missing sent or received timestamps or missing handwritten receipt notes by Joseph Hooker or Dan Butterfield. In addition to headquarters correspondence, this includes balloon and signal corps observations (including intercepted signals), picket reports, and engineer messages.
This collection also includes documents related to pre-campaign planning and lists and narratives of brevets, medals and courts-martials. Volume 1 includes Confederate correspondence from the Jeb Stuart Military Papers as well as the Chancellorsville Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War.
Volume 2 contains Federal and Confederate firsthand accounts collected by various authors to prepare their histories of the campaign. They include John Bigelow, Jr., Samuel Penniman Bates, Augustus Choate Hamlin, and Jedediah Hotchkiss. These collections are similar to the Batchelder Papers for Gettysburg and the Carman and Gould Papers for Antietam. It's loaded.
This set, which includes an insightful (and rare) Foreword by Robert Krick brings together thousands of handwritten pages drawn from archives across the country. These collections have been utilized rarely in histories of the campaign to date.
The Chancellorsville Campaign Papers will appear in two cycles, each of two volumes.
Volume 1: Official Documents
Volume 2: Postwar Correspondence
The Chancellorsville Campaign Papers: Newspaper and Postwar Historical Society Papers
Volume 3: Union Accounts
Volume 4: Confederate Accounts
