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Stonewall Jackson's Flank Attack, 5.39 acre tract, Battle of Chancellorsville The Central Virginia Battlefields Trust purchased this key portion of land in 1998 to prevent construction of a modern building and then conveyed it to the National Park Service. "Stonewall" Jackson was perhaps the South's greatest general, and Chancellorsville was Jackson's greatest triumph. The area purchased by the CVBT marks the point where Jackson struck the Union flank on May 2, routing General O. O. Howard's Eleventh Corps. The attack set in motion events that would culminate three days later in Confederate victory.
As Jackson's men forged through the woods, they drove before them turkeys, rabbits, and deer. The Confederates fell upon the Union line at this point, capturing two guns and routing General Leopold Von Gilsa's German brigade. The scrubby woods on the CVBT land, shown above, are similar in character to the second-growth forest through which Jackson's men charged. |
