Battle of Chancellorsville • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies
The Chancellorsville Campaign: May 2-3 Slocum’s Corps historical marker is on the route of the Battle of Chancellorsville Auto Tour but is not one of the numbered stops. It is between Stops 6 and 7. (see map below)
Text from the marker:
Chancellorsville Campaign
May 2-3, 1863. In this vicinity, holding Hooker’s original center, Slocum’s Corps curved northwestward (reader’s right rear) to form an interior line behind Howard’s Corps. When Jackson smashed Howard, Slocum’s western line fell also. The rest of Slocum’s position held, however, and from this area a new Federal right was run northward. Thus, on May 3, Slocum’s right fought Jackson’s Corps, while his left engaged Lee’s holding force to the south. Slocum was driven back toward the Rappahannock during the morning of May 3.
United States Department of the Interior National Park Service
Location of the Marker
The marker is on the east side of the intersection of Stuart, Slocum and Sickles Drives about 0.85 mile north of Catharine Furnace.
(go to the Stop 7) Head right (east) on Slocum Drive to continue with the Auto Tour. Stop 7 is about 1/3 of a mile. Turning left onto Stuart Drive will skip Stops 7 and 8 and take you to Stop 9.
(go to the main Chancellorsville Battlefield Auto Tour page)