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The Chancellorsville Campaign: Poplar Run Ford historical marker is on the Jackson’s Flank March Trail west of Brock Road.

The Chancellorsville Campaign: Poplar Run Ford historical marker is on the Jackson Flank March Trail on the Chancellorsville Battlefileld

Text from the marker:

Chancellorsville Campaign

May 2, 1863. Hour by hour, the long gray columns of Jackson’s Corps splashed through the shallow ford here, which was not stone-paved then, stirring the crossing into a mud hole. Before the water of this branch of Poplar Run ran clear again in its course toward the distant York, “Stonewall” Jackson and hundreds of his marchers were to fall dead or wounded. Many would never cross another earthly stream.

United States Department of the Interior   National Park Service

The road crosses Poplar Run at Poplar Run Ford on the Chancellorsville battlefield

Location of the marker

The marker is on the east side of Jackson Trail West about 700 feet north of the intersection with Custer’s Trace and just before crossing Poplar Run Ford.

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