ultimately, joe hooker will order retirement and retreat across the area and as many say this is lee's greatest victory. it was unexpected. when a texan, a civilian and texan heard about the news he wrote, oh, what a glorious army so i stole his words for the title. i had some poor choices in titles. and a glorious was from a texas civilian saying. and it's critical and understanding what will tran spire, he does not know that he had defeated the commander of the army of the potomic meaning joe hooker. he had not defeated the rank-and-file and many of the corps commanders. george mead and george reynolds were on the verge of discussing the fact if they would disobey hooker's order and not retreat in the order. hooker had to send the order saying you will cross the river. that's how much dissension was in the army but the rank-and-file was a different story but there's no way lee could know that. and after chancellorville if you start to read all these things that the confederates are writing, they essentially say, okay, wherever the army potomic we'll go meet them and that was the way