Chancellorsville Battlefield

From here on May 1-3 Confederate General Lafayette McLaws division kept Union forces occupied while Stonewall Jackson's troops marched around Hooker's army to attack his flank.

On the morning of May 3 Confederates concentrated 30 cannon here and opened an intense, concentrated bombardment of Union artillery at Fairview.

Here at 5:15pm on May 2, Jackson's veterans crushed the Union Army's right flank held by General Oliver O. Howard's 11th Corps.

The building that stood here was the home of the Chancellor family. It served as an inn before the Civil War and as Hooker's headquarters during the battle. The house burned during the fighting on May 3, 1863.

Although the Biblical word "Salem" originally derived from a Hebrew verb meaning, amongst other things "peace," Salem Church west of Fredericksburg, Virginia lives on in history because of its connections with war. Its main moment of fame was during the second Battle of Fredericksburg in May of 1863, when it became a field hospital.

The base of the furnace stack is all that remains of this ironworks which dates to the mid-1800s. Confederate General Stonewall Jackson's troops passed here during their march around the Union Army on May 2, 1863.

Union troops marched past this location on April 30, 1863 on their way to the Chancellor House, and again on May 3, pulling back after 5 hours of brutal fighting. Earthworks and artillery pits nearby mark the Unions last line of the Battle of Chancellorsville.

Union General Henry Slocum's 12th Corps held these earthworks from May 1 through May 3 when Confederate infantry and artillery from Hazel Grove forced the United States soldiers to retreat to Fairview.

For about five hours Union artillery here dueled with Confederate artillery on Hazel Grove, while opposing infantry clashed in some of the bloodiest fighting of the war.

Here on the night of May 1, 1863, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson met to plan Jackson's flank attack that would begin the next morning.