Editing Battle of Chancellorsville (section)

==In popular media==

The battle formed the basis for [[Stephen Crane]]'s 1895 novel ''[[The Red Badge of Courage]]''.<ref>[http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/CRANE/chancellorsville/section2.html "Chancellorsville,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110624085249/http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/CRANE/chancellorsville/section2.html |date=June 24, 2011 }} Red Badge of Courage material, American Studies website of the [[University of Virginia]].</ref>

The battle serves as the background for one of [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]'s short stories, published in the February 1935 [[Esquire Magazine]], entitled "The Night at Chancellorsville."<ref>{{cite web| url = http://gutenberg.net.au/fsf/THE-NIGHT-AT-CHANCELLORSVILLE.html| title = Text of the short story}}</ref>

The Battle of Chancellorsville was depicted in the 2003 film [[Gods and Generals (film)|''Gods and Generals'']], based on the [[Gods and Generals (novel)|novel of the same name]]. The treatment of the battle in both the novel and the movie focuses on Jackson's assault on the Union right flank, his wounding, and his subsequent death.