Battle of Chancellorsville • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies
The Jackson’s Amputation – J37 Virginia historical marker is on the north side of Plank Road, Virginia Route 3. (see map below)
The marker is not accessible to eastbound travellers since Plank Road is a divided highway, but a turnaround is located a short distance to the east.
Text from the marker:
J37
Jackson’s Amputation
Near here stood the hospital tent to which the wounded “Stonewall” Jackson was brought during the Battle of Chancellorsville. In that tent his left arm was amputated on May 3, 1863. He died seven days later at Guinea.
Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission 1983
Closeup of the Jackson’s Amputation Virginia Historical Marker on the Chancellorsville battlefield
After the operation Jackson’s chaplain, Reverend Beverly Tucker Lacy, took Jackson’s amputated arm to Ellwood, the nearby home of his brother. The arm was buried there in the Lacy family plot. The home is now part of the Wilderness battlefield park, and the monument to Jackson’s arm can be seen today.
Jackson was evacuated from the battlefield the next day. It was a 12 hour ambulance ride over 27 miles of rough roads to the Confederate railhead at Guinea Station. He would linger there for six days in a small office building at Fairfield Plantation before dying of pneumonia. The building is open to the public as part of the National Battlefield Park.
Map and Location to the marker
The Jackson’s Amputation – J37 Virginia historical marker is on the north side of Plank Road, Virginia Route 3. It is about 0.4 mile east of the intersection with Constitution Highway, Virginia Route 20. The marker is not accessible to eastbound travellers since Plank Road is a divided highway, but a turnaround is located a short distance to the east. (38°19’29.1″N 77°43’13.3″W)