Talk:Battle of Chancellorsville

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[edit] MoH

That list of Medal of Honor recipients is too much for a battle article. There is already a List of Medal of Honor recipients page that is suitable for tabular data of this kind. If some notable person in the article received the MoH (like Chamberlain in the various Gettysburg articles), it can be described in context of his actions, but just a list is too much. We don't list all the generals or units either. Hal Jespersen 14:50, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

One further thought: If you want to create a separate article, List of Medal of Honor recipients in the Battle of Chancellorsville, and put it into the See also section, I would not object to that. There is a precedent for putting the lengthy lists of order of battle (e.g., Nashville Union order of battle) into separate articles. Hal Jespersen 17:08, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

I concer put List of Medal of Honor recipients in the Battle of Chancellorsville.Zginder 16:12, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Its hard to believe that the Confederates won, yet the casualties on both sides were almost the same. The Union lost only 3,000 more than the Confederates. Makes you wonder whether the commander of the Union forces had a brainl. An idiot could have won this battle.

An idiot? Lee could have seen his army decimated. He didn't. A lesser general would have. Trekphiler 18:53, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] By the numbers?

I'm inclined to change the corps designators to the modern form (I Corps, II Corps, so forth); is that anachronistic? Also, there isn't an order of battle; should there be? Or a link to one? Trekphiler 18:53, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

If you are referring to the Confederate corps, we used the convention First, Second, etc., and reserve the Roman numeral nomenclature for the Union corps. (After all, there is no precedent for a "modern" Confederate corps designation. :-) ) Check out my little style guide. There is no order of battle because no one has bothered to type one in, but you are welcome to do so if you are interested. You will find that most of the OOBs for the larger battles follow the formatting conventions in, for instance, Gettysburg Union order of battle. Hal Jespersen 20:10, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Opening paragraphs should say where the battle occurred but don't

It took too long to figure out where exactly the battle took place. I finally saw the summary on the right about Spotsylvania but it should also be in the opening of the text-- and where in Spotsylvania?

161.98.13.100 18:32, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I fixed it. This is an interesting data point that indicates some people don't pay much attention to the battle boxes. Hal Jespersen 19:15, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

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