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CHANCELLORSVILLE , a See also:village of See also:Spottsylvania See also:county, See also:Virginia, U.S.A., situated almost midway between See also:Washington and See also:Richmond. It was the central point of one of the greatest battles of the See also:Civil See also:War, fought on the 2nd and 3rd of May 1863, between the See also:Union See also:Army of the Potojnac under See also:Major-See also:General See also:- HOOKER, JOSEPH (1814–1879)
- HOOKER, RICHARD (1553-1600)
- HOOKER, SIR JOSEPH DALTON (1817— English botanist and traveller, second son of the famous botanist Sir W.J.Hooker, was born on the 3oth of June 1817, at Halesworth, Suffolk. He was educated at Glasgow University, and almost immediately after taking his M.
- HOOKER, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON (1785–1865)
- HOOKER, THOMAS (1586–1647)
Hooker, and the Confederate Army of See also:Northern Virginia under
General See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee. (See See also:AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, and See also:WILDERNESS.)
General " Stonewall " See also:Jackson was mortally wounded in this See also:battle.
See also:CHANCE-MEDLEY (from the A.-Fr. chance-medlee, a mixed chance, and not from chaude-medlee, a hot See also:affray), an See also:accident of a mixed See also:character, an old See also:term in See also:English See also:law for a See also:form of See also:homicide arising out of a sudden affray or See also:quarrel. The homicide has not the characteristic of " malice prepense " which would raise the See also:death to See also:murder, nor the completely accidental nature which would reduce it to homicide by misadventure. It was practically identical, therefore, with See also:- MANSLAUGHTER (0. Eng., mannslaeht, from mann, man, and slaeht, act of slaying, sledn, to slay, properly to smite; cf. Ger. schlagen, Schlacht, battle)
manslaughter.
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