The Chancellorsville battlefield today is part of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. The park preserves and encompasses peaceful woods, rolling fields and other sites that together offer an incomparable panorama of Civil War history. Information about the park can be found at www.nps.gov/frsp.

Tragically, Chancellorsville and the other battlefields in this region — known as the "cockpit" of the Civil War — are under constant threat of commercial and residential development. To find out how you can join the fight to help save these national treasures, go to the Central Virginia Battlefield Trust Web site.