Battle of Chancellorsville • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • Battle Facts • The Armies
The marker is at Stop One on the Chancellorsville Battlefield Auto Tour, behind the Chancellorsville battlefield Visitor Center.
Text from the marker:
Memorializing Jackson’s Death
Of his soldiers he was the idol;
Of his country he was the hope;
Of war he was the master.
Senator John Warwick Daniel
When General “Stonewall” Jackson died eight days after being wounded in these woods, shock waves rippled through the South. Confederates immediately memorialized him in in words. “A greater sense of loss and deeper grief never followed the death of mortal man,” wrote one artilleryman. Few felt Jackson’s loss more keenly than Robert E. Lee, who confessed “I know not how to replace him.”
After the war local residents erected a small boulder about 60 yards from the site, to commemorate the general’s wounding. That rock still stands amid the bushes to your left-front. In 1888, 5,000 people attended the dedication of the more formal monument in front of you.
From the caption for the main photo:
Civil War veterans pose in front of the Jackson monument.
From the caption for the photo at the lower left:
The Jackson monuments, about 1900. The Orange Turnpike (modern Route 3) is on the right of the photo.
Location of the Marker
The marker is on the trail that leads around the Chancellorsville Visitor Center and around the west side of the building. It is just a short distance from the Jackson Monument. (38°18’40.1″N 77°39’01.2″W)
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