USS Chancellorsville (CG-62)

USS Chancellorsville (CG-62): Named for the Perfect Battle

Commissioned on 28 November 1992, USS Chancellorsville was named for the Battle of Chancellorsville, fought from 1 to 6 May 1863, which military historians consistently describe as Robert E. Lee's tactical masterpiece , and the most costly victory in Confederate history. Outnumbered more than two to one by Union General Hooker's Army of the Potomac, Lee divided his already smaller force and sent Stonewall Jackson on a fifteen-mile flanking march around the Union right. Jackson's corps hit the exposed flank at dusk and shattered two Union corps in an assault that began with deer, rabbits, and birds fleeing in panic toward the Federal lines as the only warning of what was coming.

The victory cost the Confederacy Stonewall Jackson himself, mortally wounded by his own pickets in the darkness after the assault. Lee won the battle and lost the general whose tactical instincts made half of Lee's victories possible. Chancellorsville was the high-water mark of Confederate military effectiveness and the beginning of its slow collapse.

USS Chancellorsville CG-62 served in the Pacific Fleet, accumulating extensive Western Pacific deployment experience through the 1990s and 2000s as part of carrier strike groups operating across the most strategically complex theater in the world. She was one of the Ticonderoga-class ships equipped with ballistic missile defense capabilities, her upgraded Aegis system capable of engaging ballistic missiles in the terminal phase , a mission the original 1983 class never anticipated.

Tactically Acquired's USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) collection honors the crew who kept a Confederate battlefield name in the Pacific Fleet and the tradition of operational excellence that name demands.