Battle of Chancellorsville • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies
The Chancellorsville Campaign: May 1-3 historical marker is on the north side of McLaws Drive. It is along the Chancellorsville Battlefield Auto Tour route but is not a numbered stop, although it is a short distance before Stop 4. (see map below)
Text from the marker:
Chancellorsville Campaign
May 1-3, 1863. “Our enemy must either ingloriously fly or come out from behind his entrenchments and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him.” With these words, “Fighting Joe” Hooker, on May 1, started toward the rear of Lee’s Fredericksburg lines. Inspired by Hooker’s enthusiasm, his confident troops swung briskly along the Turnpike. When resistance was encountered, Hooker ordered the army back to Chancellorsville. May 2, while “Stonewall” Jackson marched to attack the Union right flank, Confederates on this front threatened Hooker and, on May 3, helped drive the Federals from Chancellorsville.
United States Department of the Interior National Park Service
Location of the Marker
The marker is on the north side of McLaws Drive 500 feet southwest of the intersection with Plank Road, Virginia Route 3.
(go to Stop 4)
(go to the main Chancellorsville Battlefield Auto Tour page)