When your mother comes for a visit and you want to an obscure adventure you take her on short roadtrip to the burial location of Stone Jackson’s appendage. My gps took me on a tour of a cemetery across from the correct field. General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s left arm is buried outside of Chancellorsville, Va. His arm was amputated after a Civil War battle in 1863.
A few of my favorite Stonewall Jackson’s quotes:
The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats.
You may be whatever you resolve to be.
Don’t say it’s impossible! Turn your command over to the next officer. If he can’t do it, I’ll find someone who can, even if I have to take him from the ranks!
Ellwood Manor was not open during our visit. They appear to be doing an extensive renovation on the main house. I will want to come back when the property has tours.
Ellwood Manor, a circa 1790 home located on the Wilderness Battlefield in the Virginia counties of Spotsylvania and Orange, is significant to the nation because of the role the house and grounds played during the American Civil War. Much of the Battle of the Wilderness was fought on the plantation itself.
Within a year’s span two flags flew over the house: the Confederate Hospital flag and the blue swallowtail flag of the U.S. Army of the Potomac’s Fifth Corps. In 1863, it served as a Confederate recovery hospital for six months following the Battle of Chancellorsville. The family cemetery became the burial site for General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s amputated left arm. One year later Union General Gouverneur K. Warren set up his headquarters in the parlor there. Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant were at the house in 1863 and 1864, respectively. source
Address: 36380 Constitution Hwy, Locust Grove, VA 22508