Battle of Chancellorsville • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies
The Chancellorsville Campaign: A Huge Serpent historical marker is on the Jackson’s Flank March Trail west of Brock Road.
Text from the marker:
Chancellorsville Campaign
If a balloonist had been high overhead, Jackson’s column might have resembled a huge serpent as it wound through the forest. Closer up, it became thousands of marchers in worn battle dress. From this point, they stretched back about six miles to the Lee-Jackson bivouac, followed by a tail of cannon and wagons extending four miles beyond that area. “Old Jack’s foot cavalry” gratefully trod a road neither too wet nor dusty, but the dewy morning turned to hot midday. They would welcome a stream in the dry woodland.
United States Department of the Interior National Park Service
Location of the marker
The marker is on the east side of Jackson Trail West about 0.4 mile west of Btock Road.
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