You Are Here Maps-Climactic Struggle - Chancellorsville VA
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Don.Morfe
N 38° 18.546 W 077° 38.089
18S E 269625 N 4243396
The You Are Here map shows that you are at the intersection of Plank Road (State Highway 3) and Elys Ford Road (County Route 610).
Waymark Code: WM18JGC
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 08/11/2023
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Climactic Struggle-On the morning of May 3, 1863, more than 17,500 men fell killed or wounded in the woods and fields around you - one man shot every second for five hours. Entrenched Union lines in front of you collapsed, and the Confederates surged forward to seize the Chancellorsville intersection. Some 25 Union cannons in this clearing made a valiant effort to cover the retreat, but they were soon smothered in a Confederate crossfire.
Major William H. Stewart of the 61st Virginia Infantry recalled the confusion and horror of that morning:
"The Chancellor house was enveloped in flames .... Men everywhere were seen to be in the agonies of death, some of these grappling the earth to draw their broken forms from the range of the searching flames. On both sides of the road were scattered loaves of bread, empty haversacks and cartridge boxes... hundreds of knapsacks...thousands of muskets...."
LOCATION: Marker is near Chancellorsville, Virginia, in Spotsylvania County. Marker is at the intersection of Plank Road (State Highway 3) and Elys Ford Road (County Route 610), on the right when traveling west on Plank Road. Located at stop three of the driving tour of Chancellorsville Battlefield. Post office area: Fredericksburg VA 22407
Location Name: Intersection of Plank Road (State Highway 3) and Elys Ford Road (County Route 610)
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