"Bullets had struck Jackson not once, but three times. One bullet lodged in his right palm while two others struck his left arm. Couriers and aides carried the wounded general to a field hospital at Wilderness Tavern, four miles to the rear. At two o'clock in the morning, doctors removed the general's mangled arm. (A chaplain later buried the limb at nearby Ellwood Plantation.) Learning of Jackson's operation, Lee commented, "He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right arm." The presence of Union cavalry behind Confederate lines required that Jackson be moved to a place of greater safety. On May 4 he was lifted onto an ambulance and carried twenty-seven miles to Guinea Station. He was put to bed in the office of Thomas Coleman Chandler's plantation "Fairfield" (pictured below). There, six days later, with his wife and infant daughter at his side, Jackson died of pneumonia. A man of action, his last words were ones of repose: "Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees." He is buried in Lexington, Virginia." --"The Wounding of "Stonewall" Jackson, A Walking Tour", published by Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park
This house in Guinea Station is the site of Stonewall Jackson's death in 1863.
This mantle clock (still running) in the room where Jackson died chimed the quarter hour 3:15 as I stood in the room. Jackson died at 3:15 on May 10, 1863.
This painting depicts "Fairfield" at the time Jackson was transported here in anticipation of moving him by rail to a hospital when his condition stabilized.
