where did chancellorsville battle take place?
Spotsylvania County
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 The battle acts as the crux of Charles Fenno Hoffman 's 1840 novel Greyslaer . 

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 The Battle of Spencer 's Ordinary was an inconclusive skirmish that took place on 26 June 1781 , late in the American Revolutionary War . British forces under Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe and American forces under Colonel Richard Butler , light detachments from the armies of General Lord Cornwallis and the Marquis de Lafayette respectively , clashed near a tavern ( the " ordinary " ) at a road intersection not far from Williamsburg , Virginia . 

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 The Battle of Antietam / ænˈtiːtəm / , also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg , particularly in the South , fought on September 17 , 1862 , near Sharpsburg , Maryland and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign , was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil . It is the bloodiest single @-@ day battle in American history , with a combined tally of 22 @,@ 717 dead , wounded , or missing . 

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 The battle opened at dawn ( about 5 : 30 a.m. ) on September 17 with an attack down the Hagerstown Turnpike by the Union I Corps under Joseph Hooker . Hooker 's objective was the plateau on which sat the Dunker Church , a modest whitewashed building belonging to a local sect of German Baptists . Hooker had approximately 8 @,@ 600 men , little more than the 7 @,@ 700 defenders under Stonewall Jackson , and this slight disparity was more than offset by the Confederates ' strong defensive positions . Abner Doubleday 's division moved on Hooker 's right , James Ricketts 's moved on the left into the East Woods , and George Meade 's Pennsylvania Reserves division deployed in the center and slightly to the rear . Jackson 's defense consisted of the divisions under Alexander Lawton and John R. Jones in line from the West Woods , across the Turnpike , and along the southern end of the Miller Cornfield . Four brigades were held in reserve inside the West Woods . 

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 The battle is considered one of the largest and most vicious of those involving the Polish Legions in World War I. Piłsudski in his order of July 11 , 1916 wrote that " the heaviest of our current fights took place in the recent days . " 
