The Key to the Battlefield at Hazel Grove: Chancellorsville 160
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- Artillery, infantry, and a world-famous novel collide at Hazel Grove. Following the wounding of Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee sought to keep the momentum of the campaign on his side and to reunite the Army of Northern Virginia. At dawn on May 3, 1863, famed cavalryman Jeb Stuart, now at the head of Jackson's infantry, opened a brutal day of fighting that produced more than 22,000 casualties. The opening action at Hazel Grove secured the Confederate momentum and an excellent artillery position. Join Chris Mackowski, Don Pfanz, Greg Mertz, Dan Davis, Steward Henderson, Sarah Kay Bierle, and Kris White for a walk through the bloodiest day at Chancellorsville.
This video is part of our coverage commemorating the 160th Anniversary of the Battle of Chancellorsville. View the entire tour series here: • Chancellorsville: 160t...
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Kris White is getting better and better at this.
I think he is already pretty good
Really have to commend this Chancellorsville series. Every single one of these videos has been fantastic and fascinating. Bravo guys!
Proud to be a member of the ABT. Thank you for protecting such historic and priceless land
Thank you! ❤️💯👊
This is the best series on Chancellorsville. There are so many on Gettysburg really glad to see a great one on this battle!
Great job. I really enjoy watching your videos. I grew up just up the road in Orange county on RT 20. ( Orange Turnpike) my family has been there for a couple hundred years. My Great great grandfather's fought in the 6th Va Calvary and the 7th Va infantry. My 4th Great Grandfather was Thomas Robinson who owned Robinson's Tavern. I'm an Almond. Thanks so much.
This whole series has been awesome.
I have watched all of these videos for the 160 anniversary. Learning a lot I didn’t know. Thanks for doing this.
Enjoy your commentary and convivial interactions!
Thanks!
This is one of those situations where it looks so “clear” on the map, but is a whole lot harder to understand in real life and on the ground. Thanks for this video and the visuals and excellent descriptions of this vital piece of the battle.
Always great info and presentation.
Everyone has done a phenomenal job ing putting this series together. It couldn’t have been easy and must have been time consuming to get to the point of getting this series out. Kudos to all. I absolutely love this series and so many others. Thank you so very much!!!!
Thank you so much for this, I have been stuck on WW2 and WW1, so this is all new to me and it is just freaking awesome! Love it!
Awesome, thanks!
It's great to see the hundred and 160 year reunion for Chancellorsville. It's great!
Loss of Stonewall may have been turning point of war. Wish Forrest had been brought East.
Awesome stuff.
Another fantastic chapter of a fantastic series.
Kris and Chris, you guys are awesome!! Sorry iam biased!! 😂🤣 Your all great! Thank you for the education! 👏👏
The two chris,s need to try out as a comedy duo lol. Enjoyed the presentation and the guests contributions. Beautiful weather and backdrop. A lot different there 160 years ago no doubt.
All I can say is this is KICK ASS historical information 💪🏻💥
Outstanding series!
Kudos to all involved in producing this series! The vids have been terrific!
I've been there many times. It is a nice quiet place to visit, it does not get alot of visiters.
The home called 'Hazel Grove' was located near the modern Wilderness Road.
Behind the speakers is modern Stuart Drive, which, according to one map, was a Federal entrenchment.
This entrenchment ran north past the Van Wert home, crossed modern Route 3, and also ran south and then east toward the Orange Plank Road.
I think most Civil War content creators overlook the 8th PA Cavalry's charge at dusk on May 2, 1863, because the best vantage point to discuss it from is the intersection of the access road to the current campground (now privately owned) and the former Orange Plank Road. I've been obsessed with researching this event for years, so I'd love to see some attention given to the 8th PA CAV and Major Huey. They launched from Hazel Grove, only to accidentally encounter Jackson's flank attack. While the action itself was minor, it resulted in about thirty Union horsemen deaths, including officers. Some historians believe that when Jackson was accidentally shot by his own men, they may have mistaken him for Federal Cavalry, like the 8th PA CAV. I'd love to see an interpretive plaque commemorating the charge at the national park, either near the Orange Plank Road or Hazel Grove, where the Federal horsemen were interrupted during a card game before riding to their fate.
Love this series. I need to see the video you did at Fairview as my relative was in the 84th Pennsylvania and was captured twice and escaped twice during the battle. I think that all happened in front of Fairview.
Great video, y'all! Just a side observation: what was that spot on the far left, seemingly on the edge of the woods that moved off screen? 21:48
I'm not saying it's ghosts, but it's probably ghosts. 😜
Battlefield biker!
I've heard several "props" to Rodes. I'm still waiting to hear what happened with him on the evening of July 2 at Gettysburg?
I hate that the Wilderness Resort is still there. I have always wished that it would close and that the ABT would buy it. Probably not going to happen anytime soon.
So sad that Stonewall Jackson lost his life due to this battle. Changed the course of history!
#manlove😂
Red badge of Courage is more connected to the battles of the Wilderness in 1864.
What did that little heifer say, "lt was Chancellorsville". PERIOD
Comical to me ,at Antietam there was a dunker church and chancellorsville there's a drunkards church!
Boggles my mind that these incompetent generals that kept getting the nod to lead the Army of the Potomac to victory, were more concerned about leading there army to doom and going down in the record books forever more as horrible generals. They should’ve been focused on being the leading general first, but then that would require being an actual general!
Absolutely love your videos and knowable information! On occasion we can here y’all “wissper wissper wissper”! HaHa