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Article: The second battle of Chancellorsville; Preservationsts try to keep Chancellorsville as it was in 1863.(FEATURES)(TRAVEL)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- May 19, 2004
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Byline: Tom O'Brien Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
FREDERICKSBURG, VA. -- On the back trails of the battlefield at Chancellorsville, there are places where time seems to have stopped, where May 1863 seems just a few steps around the next bend of a road.
Visiting here, you can easily conjure up images of the Confederate victory - a Pyrrhic one - and imagine that Southern troops are about to pounce, as they did in Stonewall Jackson's lethal flank attack on the Union Army. Jackson wound up being shot by his own troops, the most consequential incident of "friendly fire" in American history.
If you visit Chancellorsville - one of the ...