Battle of Chancellorsville • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies
The Lee’s Greatest Triumph wayside marker is at Stop 3 on the Chancellorsville Battlefield Auto Tour. It is next to the “Climactic Struggle” wayside marker. (see map below)
The markers look southwest from Tour Stop Three toward the Confederate Artillery concentration in the direction of Fairfield and Hazel Grove
Text from the marker:
Lee’s Greatest Triumph
As Union resistance around the Chancellor house dissolved, Robert E. Lee rode into the clearing behind his victorious battalions. Though badly outnumbered, Lee in three days had stopped the initial Union advance, brazenly split his own army to launch the most successful flank attack of the war, and, on May 3, driven the Federals from their entrenched positions around Chancellorsville. The battle was perhaps the greatest of his career.
Thousands of Confederate troops raised their hats and cheered when they saw Lee arrive near the Chancellor house. Wrote one staff officer:
…it must have been from such a scene that men in ancient days rose to the dignity of gods.
Location of the Marker
The marker is about 120 feet south of the parking area on a paved walkway that leads to the Chancellor House Ruins. (38°18’34.3″N 77°38’04.6″W)
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