The Chancellor family mansion and inn served as Union General Hooker's headquarters during the Battle of Chancellorsville. The house caught fire on May 3, 1863 during the battle; a rebuilt structure burned again in 1927. NPS archaeologists marked the original foundations in 1976, and the outline is preserved today on the Chancellorsville Battlefield.
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- ·The Chancellor family mansion and inn served as Union General Hooker's headquarters during the Battle of Chancellorsville. The house caught fire on May 3, 1863 during the battle; a rebuilt structure burned again in 1927. NPS archaeologists marked the original foundations in 1976, and the outline is preserved today on the Chancellorsville Battlefield.
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