Chancellorsville Battlefield
— the field where the perfect battle cost the man who won it.
Not only on a wall.
Chancellorsville Battlefield, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“A clearing in the second-growth woods west of Fredericksburg where Lee divided his army in May 1863 and routed a Union force twice his size. Jackson was shot here by his own pickets after dark on the second day and died eight days later at Guinea Station. The road through is still called the Orange Plank Road. from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Chancellorsville Battlefield lies in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, about ten miles west of Fredericksburg along the Orange Turnpike and the parallel Orange Plank Road. It is one of four battlefields preserved within Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, which protects roughly nine thousand acres of Civil War ground in the region. The battlefield centers on the clearing around the Chancellor family house, which gave the crossroads its name, and extends west into the dense second-growth woods that Civil War soldiers called the Wilderness.
The battle ran from the first through the sixth of May 1863. Robert E. Lee, outnumbered roughly sixty thousand to one hundred and thirty thousand, divided his army twice and used Stonewall Jackson's flank march down the Brock Road to fall on the exposed right of the Union XI Corps at dusk on May 2. Historians have long called Chancellorsville Lee's most audacious victory. It cost him about thirteen thousand casualties and his most trusted lieutenant, Jackson, who was shot by his own North Carolina pickets in the dark and died on May 10.
The Chancellorsville Battlefield Visitor Center sits on Route 3, the Orange Turnpike, just inside the park boundary. A seven-mile driving tour follows the main lines of the battle, with stops at the Chancellor House site, the Jackson flank attack ground along Hazel Grove and Fairview, and the small stone marker on the Mountain Road where Jackson was wounded after dark on May 2. The park maintains a separate site at the Jackson Shrine in Guinea Station, the small office building twelve miles south where he died on May 10.
