The Chancellor Inn on the Orange Turnpike ruins. Fire from cannon destroyed this inn on May 3, 1863. Jackson's Corps under the command of JEB Stewart overwhelmed the artillery here and at Fairview some 1/2 mile west and infantry took this place which had been Hooker's HQ. The Federals here and at Salem church to the East fled across the fords of the river to safety. But perhaps the south had the biggest loss in the wounding and subsequent death of Stonewall Jackson. Who can say what might have been had he been with the ANV in latter years.
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