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Union
Casualties: 18,400
Confederate Casualties:
11,400
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Statistical Source: NPS
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Robert E. Lee's daring
counterstroke: Seeing Hooker
coming, he defied all military convention and divided
his outnumbered force, rushing most of his men west
to halt the Federal advance on May 1, 1863.
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