At the Battle of Chancellorsville (May 1863), Robert E. Lee and General Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson, were able to defeat a numerically superior Union force, led by Gen. Joseph Hooker.
Because the Confederate forces were outnumbered, the conventional thing for them to do would have been to gather their forces in one place and try to avoid battle, or at the very least fight on the defensive.
Instead, Lee and Jackson decided to split their forces and use the tactic known as a flanking attack (attacking the enemy from the side rather than the front) against the Union army.
This tactic allowed the Confederates to win a victory that is still cited as a "stunning" win.
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