Chaff before the wind: Re-enactors breathe life into Civil War
battle    Union re-enactors fire a volley against Confederate
re-enactors as the Union line begins to crumble during a re-
enactment of the Battle of Chancellorsville. This year marks the
150th anniversary of the Civil War battle. (DOD photo by Sgt.
1st Class Raymond J. Piper, Soldiers Live)   The years have
changed the battlefield. While there is still much wilderness
where the Battle of Chancellorsville took place, the battlefield
now is nestled between two highways in Spotsylvania County, Va.
Where once only trees and brush covered the land, neighborhoods
and homes have grown. Over the weekend of May 1, 2013, on the
very soil where soldiers fought and died 150 years ago, re-
enactors, spectators and county officials worked to keep the
memories of the Battle of Chancellorsville and the Civil War
alive.  Civil War historians have called the battle Gen. Robert
E. Lee’s “perfect victory.” Outnumbered by a force more than
twice the size of his, Lee ma