I guarantee there are folks who commute to work on route 3 (the Plank Road) every day and if you asked them about Chancellorsville they'd give you a blank stare.
“I guarantee there are folks who commute to work on route 3 (the Plank Road) every day and if you asked them about Chancellorsville they’d give you a blank stare.”
There was a time, and it wasn’t that many years ago, that I could tell you very little or nothing at all about the lesser written about and less publicized battles. When doing family research I studied up on these lesser known battles that my ancestors fought in and others as well, and learned a whole lot more about that horrific war than what I was taught in school.
Now just the mere mention of the words, Chancellorsville, The Wilderness, Petersburg, or Cold Harbor sends chills up my spine.
Some day I would love to make the long trip back there and visit those sites.
Proud member of the 11th North Carolina Infantry Regiment Descendants Association