Salem Church Va.

[rebed19th]

Image 1-Front entrance to the church. Door on left for women worshipers, door on right for men.
Image 2- separate side entrance for negro worshipers
Image 3- Inside of church
Image 4- Bullet scarred brick walls of church

 

[redbob]

Salem Church was said by members of Wilcox's Alabama Brigade to perhaps have been their best day of the entire war.

 

[Northern Light]

funnily enough, I was just reading about this battle last night in Sears' study of Chancellorsville. Thanks fpr posting the photos so that I can see where the battle took place.

 

[Yankeedave]

funnily enough, I was just reading about this battle last night in Sears' study of Chancellorsville. Thanks fpr posting the photos so that I can see where the battle took place.

If you can give Earnest Furgurson's "Chancelloresville 1863" a read. Found him to to be more level headed in his opinions. That and he actually toured the battlefield... Anyway, good read all the way around.

 

[Yankeedave]

Salem Church was said by members of Wilcox's Alabama Brigade to perhaps have been their best day of the entire war.

They had a great fighting position for the most part. In a sunken road with a solid fence to the front. Tree's grew along the extant of the line. That and the Salem Church mini fortress on the right. Awesome little spot for a fight.

 

[Northern Light]

If you can give Earnest Furgurson's "Chancelloresville 1863" a read. Found him to to be more level headed in his opinions. That and he actually toured the battlefield... Anyway, good read all the way around.

Thanks for the suggestion. To go off topic for a moment, do you know why Sears did not tour the battlefield? It seems like an odd decision when writing a book about the battle. I toured it before I really had read much about Chancellorsville and now the book makes more sense because I can remember seeing where things happened. Now I want to go back.

 

[JOHN42768]

Thanks for posting

 

[Jamieva]

Another book recommendation....

Chancellorville's Forgotten Front. The Battles of Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher White. Part of the Emerging Civil war series

 

[jcrook]

Three confederate graves in the cemetery beside the church.

 

[Belle Montgomery]

Thank you! Great pics. Kudos to the UDC!

 

[Yankeedave]

Thanks for the suggestion. To go off topic for a moment, do you know why Sears did not tour the battlefield? It seems like an odd decision when writing a book about the battle. I toured it before I really had read much about Chancellorsville and now the book makes more sense because I can remember seeing where things happened. Now I want to go back.

I had heard that after Landscape turned Red. And yeah, visiting the place can only help in drawing a picture so to speak. I tend to like his battlefield stuff, oddly the places he doesn't visit, but disagre with many of his "social" assumptions and conclusion, something he doesn't have to physically visit to write about. Anyway, all that aside most of us learned a lot of the eastern war and and the a.o.t.p. at that from the man.

 

[rebed19th]

I also took pictures of the confederate headstones and the interesting thing about 2 of them is that they both fought with the Co E 9th Va. cavalry. W Smith died 1900 but J Diggs does not have any dates.

 

[Yankeedave]

I also took pictures of the confederate headstones and the interesting thing about 2 of them is that they both fought with the Co E 9th Va. cavalry. W Smith died 1900 but J Diggs does not have any dates.

Was Co. E recruited from the area maybe?

 

[RebelWeber]

Outstanding photos

 

[AnnaLee]

Thanks for the pics. Been there many times over the years.