 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pashure peMud March ine mukurumbira wakashata yaJanuary 1863, Major General Joseph Hooker akatsiva Major General Ambrose Burnside somukuru mukuru wehondo yeArmy of the Potomac. Mukupera kwaMarch, mukoma waHenry ane makore 95, Arthur, akafa necroup. Pashure pemavhiki maviri ari muBoston pashure porufu rwaArthur, Henry akadzokera kuchikwata chake. Musi waMay 3, 1863, Abbott akarwa nehurumende yake panguva yechipiri Hondo yeFredericksburg, Virginia, iyo yaiva chikamu cheChancellorsville Campaign. Major General John Sedgwick, mutungamiri we grand division iyo 20th Massachusetts Infantry yaiva chikamu, akarayirwa kutora Fredericksburg uye ndokuzouya kuzobatsira chikamu chikuru cheHondo yeMubatanidzwa iyo yakauya pasi pekurwiswa kwakasimba kubva kuConfederate mauto kuChancellorsville. 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment yakanga iri kurudyi rworudyi rwomutsara uye yakatambura chete 2 vakafa uye 13 vakakuvadzwa, mumwe wavo akanga ari Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. uyo akakuvadzwa kwechitatu. Muhondo iyi, mauto eUnion akakunda Maryes Heights. Sedgwick akarambidzwa kujoina Hooker paChancellorsville iri pedyo nemauto eConfederate paHondo yeSalem Church. Chikamu chaBrigadier General John Gibbon, kusanganisira 20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, iyo yakanga yasara kuti ichengetedze mutsetse paFredericksburg, yaifanira kudzokera shure kuyambuka Rwizi rweRappahannock kuti vabatane naHooker naSedgwick, avo vakanga vayambuka rwizi zvakare kumusoro. 