Battle of Chancellorsville - Aftermath

Aftermath

My God! It is horrible—horrible; and to think of it, 130,000 magnificent soldiers so cut the pieces by less than 60,000 half-starved ragamuffins!

The Union cavalry under Brig. Gen. George Stoneman, after a week of ineffectual raiding in central and southern Virginia in which they failed to attack any of the objectives Hooker established, withdrew into Union lines east of Richmond—the peninsula north of the York River, across from Yorktown—on May 7, ending the campaign.