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Nine Mile Run
This 11.89 acre tract is comprised of two parcels on the north side of Route 3, on either side of a creek. The first acquisition was 5.39 acres, in 1999. The second acquisition occurred when a house on an adjacent parcel burned and the owner decided to move rather than rebuild. This second purchase was for 6.5 acres, in 2002. Through a grant from the Sunshine Lady Foundation, the CVBT subsequently removed all evidence of the burned house and restored the grade. The site is rapidly revegetating.
This preserved ground is the low ground west of the ridge occupied by the Confederate army at the end of the fighting on May 1, 1863, during the Chancellorsville campaign. During the next day, while Stonewall Jackson marched a force across the Union front to attack the Federal right flank, Robert E. Lee kept pressure on the Federals in this area, to distract them from Jackson’s exposed march. Late in the afternoon, Jackson’s troops attacked out of the woods, far to the west, and pressed hard toward Chancellorsville on May 3rd. This preserved terrain saw more fighting when Major General Richard H. Anderson launched his Confederates through this area in support of the Southern attacks closing in from the west. Well preserved Union earthworks are still evident on the ground.
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