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Weight: .4lbs
1863 Signed
and Numbered Limited Edition Monument Replicas
Lieutenant General Thomas J. Jackson – the legendary “Stonewall” –
was brought to Guinea Station, Virginia, after he was wounded by friendly fire
during the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863.
Jackson’s
shattered arm was amputated on May 3 in a battlefield hospital by Jackson’s
Chief Surgeon, Dr. Hunter McGuire. On May 4, General Lee ordered that
Jackson be evacuated to Guinea Station, next to the Richmond, Fredericksburg
& Potomac Railroad. The railroad to Richmond had been torn up by
raiding Federal cavalry, but Guinea Station was considered a safe place for
Jackson to recover until the tracks could be reopened. Jackson rode 12
hours in an ambulance over 27 miles of rough road to the railhead.
Earlier in the
year Jackson’s men had bivouacked here and he had met and been kindly treated
by Thomas Coleman Chandler, the owner of Fairfield Plantation. A patient
with a contagious disease was already in the main house, so Jackson was moved
into the plantation office building, which had room for Jackson and his
doctors, staff and servant to be undisturbed. Jackson would linger there
for six days until he died of pneumonia on May 10, 1863.
After the war,
the Chandlers moved from the plantation and the buildings fell into disrepair.
The Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad bought the property in 1909
and tore down all the buildings except for the farm office where Jackson had
died, which they called the Stonewall Jackson Shrine. The shrine became a
part of the Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania
National Military Park in 1937.
The Stonewall
Jackson Died monument is situated next to the three wayside markers along the
north edge of the parking area edge at the Stonewall Jackson Shrine, which is located about twelve
miles south of Fredericksburg. The monument is one of ten placed on battlefields around
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County by the Reverend James Powers Smith, who
had been a lieutenant on Jackson’s staff.
The monument was originally placed
close to the railroad tracks in order to be visible to passengers using the
station. When automobiles became the dominant mode of vacation travel,
the monument was moved by the National Park Service to its present location in
the 1960s. The last two lines about Jackson’s burial in Lexington were
added in response to the many questions from visitors asking if Jackson was
buried nearby.
The monument was
dedicated in 1903 and is located near Guinea, Virginia, in Caroline County, on
Stonewall Jackson Road (County Route 606).
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