Darkness at Chancellorsville

Ralph Peters'' Darkness at Chancellorsville is a novel of one of the most dramatic battles in American history from the New York Times bestselling three-time Boyd Award-winning author of the Battle Hymn Cycle.Centered upon one of the most surprising and dramatic battles in American history Darkness at Chancellorsville recreates what began as a brilliant triumphant campaign for the Union―only to end in disaster for the North. Famed Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson bring off an against-all-odds surprise victory humiliating a Yankee force three times the size of their own while the Northern army is torn by rivalries anti-immigrant prejudice and selfish ambition. This historically accurate epic captures the high drama human complexity and existential threat that nearly tore the United States in two featuring a broad range of fascinating―and real―characters in blue and gray who sum to an untold story about a battle that has attained mythic proportions. And in the end the Confederate triumph proved a Pyrrhic victory since it lured Lee to embark on what would become the war''s turning point―the Gettysburg Campaign (featured in Cain At Gettysburg).