Why did Hooker loose at Chancellorsville?

Answer 1

"Why did 'Fighting Joe' Hooker LOSE at the Battle of Chancellorsville?"

"It (Hooker's plan) was, in the main, a good conception, sir; an excellent plan. But he (Hooker) should not have sent away his calavary; that was his great blunder. It was that which enabled me to turn him, without his being aware of it, and to take him by his rear. Had he kept his calvary with him, his plan would have been a very good one."
Thomas J. "Stonewall' Jackson

"Jackson was only partially correct about what happened at Chancellorsville; for, if it had not been for Lee's courageous decision to spilt the army again in the face of a numerically superior foe, Hooker would not have been taken on the flank.

As it turned out, Hooker contributed to his own downfall by showing ineptness once his excellent plan required battlefield execution. Not only had he sent the calvary away, but he also had not committed all the infantry corps. His and (Oliver O.) Howard's hazardous security precautions, his failure to better coordinate the wings of the army, and his blunder in giving up Hazel Grove were important factors in his defeat."

Answer 2

Hooker lost at Chancellorsville because he lost his nerve, he talked big about defeating Lee, but after he had won a march upon Lee and got onto his flanks, he panicked and stopped in the wilderness rather than move out into the open fields. Then, he decided that he would await an attack by Lee and failed to make defensive plans. Then to further acerbate his mistakes, he watched as Jackson's corps moved south and thought that meant that Lee was retreating.

Hooker let an army march across his defensive front without ordering an attack on the retreating column.

In addition, he so distrusted his subordinates that he did not tell them of his plans for battle so when he became incapacitated during the battle(he was standing on the porch of a house when a confederate cannonball hit the house and the porch fell on him), so at an important time in the battle, there was no one in command who knew the plans of battle.

There were many reasons the battle was lost, but Hooker lost his nerve and halted at Chancellorsville rather than continue marching through the wilderness and get out into the open where the Union army would have a much bigger advantage over the ANV.

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Answer 3

Because Hooker allowed a serious tactical set back shatter his confidence in himself and his men. This battle could have still been won by the Army of the Potomac since the Confederate attacks, devastating as they were, had by no means routed the Union Army from the field and only half them had seen any action at all. Determined counter measures against the still separated, numerically inferior portions of Lee's army might well have reversed the situation. This is not 20/20 hindsight by armchair generals but the opinion of Hooker's Corps commanders.
A year later on the same ground with both of his flanks battered in on the first day like Hooker, Grant simply refused to be beaten and kept finding ways to pressure Lee's army.

Answer 4

He was outwitted by Lee's flanking movement led by TJ Jackson. Splitting his smaller army in two, Lee sent Jackson's Corps on a left flanking movement that fell upon the hapless XIth Corps of Hooker's Army. Rather than bring up reinforcements, the Yankees ended up in a route. Hooker was bamboozled as they say.

Answer 5

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