Brigadier General E.F. Paxton monument

Battle of Chancellorsville • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies

The monument to Confederate Brigadier General Elisha Franklin Paxton is along the Auto Tour Route but is not a Tour Stop. It is on Stuart Drive about 200 yards south of Plank Road. (see map below)  A wayside marker about General Paxton is across the road with two other markers.

Monument to Confederate Brigadier General Elisha F. Paxton on the Chancellorsville battlefield

Text from the monument

In this vicinity

Brig. Gen. E. F. Paxton, C.S.A.

Aged 35 years, of Rockbridge County, VA.
Was killed on the morning of May 3, 1863
While leading his command, the
Stonewall Brigade
in the attack on Fairview

Closeup of the tablet from the Monument to Confederate Brigadier General Elisha F. Paxton on the Chancellorsville battlefield

 (go to the main Chancellorsville Battlefield Auto Tour page)

Location of the monument

The monument to Brigadier General E.F. Paxton is on Stuart Drive about 200 yards south of Plank Road (Virginia Route 3) and the Visitor Center (38°18’32.0″N 77°39’06.7″W). The Paxton monument is on the west side of the road across from the wayside markers.

Chancellorsville Tour Stop 9 markerDirections to the next Tour Stop:
Stop 9, Hazel Grove, is about 1,200 feet south.