“Stonewall” Jackson’s Arm

“Stonewall” Jackson’s Arm. The Battle of the Wilderness. , Here, in the Jones family cemetery, lie the remains of “Stonewall” Jackson’s left arm. The Confederate general lost the limb during the Battle of Chancellorsville, where he was mistakenly shot by his own troops. Surgeons removed the arm at the Wilderness Tavern field hospital, one-half mile to your left-rear, early May 3, 1863., Jackson’s chaplain, Rev. B. Tucker Lacy, visited the hospital later that morning. As he was leaving Jackson’s tent, Lacy saw the general’s amputated arm lying outside. He gathered up the limb and carried it across the fields to his brother’s estate, Ellwood, and buried it here in the family cemetery., In 1903, Rev. James Power Smith erected the small granite marker that stands in the cemetery. Smith had been on Jackson’s staff during the Civil War and later married Agnes Lacy, the daughter of Ellwood’s owner., “He has lost his left arm; but I have lost my right arm.” , Robert E. Lee on “Stonewall” Jackson, (captions) , Jackson being cared for near the Wilderness Tavern. He remained there for just a day. On May 4, 1863, an ambulance carried him 25 miles to Guinea Station, a Confederate supply hub where he died six days later., This photograph of Jackson was taken in April 1863, less than two weeks before he was mortally wounded at Chancellorsville.