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MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · May 6

THE DAY IN HISTORY · MAY 6

May 6 in history

1863 — Chancellorsville

1–6 May 1863 — Outnumbered two to one, Lee divides his army twice and wins his masterpiece — but Stonewall Jackson is shot in the dark by his own pickets and dies eight days later. “I have lost my right arm.”

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