Battle of Chancellorsville • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies
Tour Stop 10 is at the end of Berry-Paxton Road. It is the final stop on the Chancellorsville Battlefield Auto Tour, and is the trailhead for the 20 minute Fairview walking tour.
A monument is about 850 feet south of the parking area on the north side of Berry-Paxton Road:
27th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Six wayside markers along the Fairview walking trail interpret the events which happened in the clearing:
Artillery Duel
Chancellor Cemetery
Fairview – Ordeal of the Wounded
Jackson’s Impact – High Drama, Human Tragedy
From the trailhead marker:
Fairview
Formerly a Chancellor farmstead, on May 3, 1863, Fairview became a gory landscape. That morning all the energy and violence of the Battle of Chancellorsville focused here – on the fields and woods around a commonplace log house. Here, the contending armies decided the outcome of the battle.
Walk this easy loop trail over farm-turned-battlefield – through Union gun pits, past the Fairview house site, and near the Chancellor cemetery. The loop trail takes approxiately 20 minutes.
Location of Tour Stop 10
Tour Stop 10 – Fairview on the Chancellorsville Battlefield Auto Tour is at the east end of Berry-Paxton Drive. (38°18’23.9″N 77°38’37.9″W)
Where to next?
This is the last stop on the Battle of Chancellorsville Auto Tour. Return to Stuart Drive and turn right to reach the intersection with Plank Road, Virginia Route 3. From here you can continue across Plank Road to return to the Visitor Center. Turn right on Plank Road to go to the Salem Church battlefield (part of the Chancellorsville battle), go into Fredericksburg, or get on Interstate 95. Turn left on Plank Road to go to the Wilderness Battlefield or see the final resting place of Stonewall Jackson’s Arm at Ellwood.