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from the interpretive sign:
Waiting Room
During Jackson’s illness, staff officers used this room to relax, write letters, and chat. Doctors attending to Jackson consulted here. “All that human skill could devise was done to stay the hand of death,” one affirmed, but it was not enough. By May 10, Jackson’s physicians gave up all hope of his recovery. Summoning his wife, they informed her that the general had but a few short hours to live.
from the interpretive sign:
Jackson’s Staff Quarters
Jackson’s aide James Power Smith, later a prominent Presbyterian minister, slept here. At one time or another, fellow staff members and dctors were roommates, including Dr. Hunter McGuire (though he went largely without sleep, sometimes napping on a lounge at Jackson’s bedside) and Dr. Samuel B. Morrison, a kinsman of Mrs. Jackson’s. Furnishings in this room comprised personal effects of the temporary occupants and a few pieces hastily placed by here (sic) the Chandlers.
It was James Power Smith who after the war placed the Stonewall Jackson Died monument here at Guinea Station, along with nine other monuments around Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County.
from the interpretive sign:
Jim Lewis’ Room
Jackson’s camp servant Jim Lewis slept in this, the smaller of the two upstairs rooms. A staff officer described Lewis as “A handsome mulatto, in the prime of life, well-made and… true only to the General.” Mrs. Jacksonremembered, “it was touching to see the genuine grief of his servant, Jim, who nursed him faithfully to the end.” The piled-up furniture represents articles i storage from the Chandler dwelling.
