Battle of Chancellorsville • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • Battle Facts • The Armies
The large bronze compass rose is just east of the Chancelorsville Battlefield Visitor Center, Stop 1 on the Chancellorsville Battlefield Auto Tour. Other compasses are at the Wilderness Battlefield (Brock Road and Saunders Field), Spotsylvania Court House (Brock Road and Bloody Angle) and Fredericksburg.
The compass shows the direction and distances to many Chancellorsvile-related locations:
Clockwise from the north:
N
Gettysburg – 115 miles
U.S. Ford – 3.8 miles
Apex Hooker’s Last Line – 0.9 miles
Bank’s Ford – 6.7 miles
E
Chancellorsville – 0.9 miles
Fairview – 0.5 miles
Lee-Jackson Bivouac – 1.8 miles
Guinea Station – 18 miles
Richmond – 55 miles
S
Catharine Furnace – 1.5 miles
Hazel Grove – 0.8 miles
Gordonsville – 32 miles
W
Federal Right – 2 miles
Germanna Ford – 8 miles
Ely’s Ford – 3.8 miles
Location of the Compass Rose at the Chancellorsville Visitor Center
(go to the main Stop 1 page)
(go to the main Chancellorsville Battlefield Auto Tour page)