Battle of Fredericksburg • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • Armies
The “Jackson on the Field” monument is at Stop Six of the Fredericksburg Battlefield Auto Tour. (see map below) It is just a few steps from the Prospect Hill Compass Rose and the Dead Horse Hill and the Jackson Holds Prospect Hill wayside markers.
The monument is one of a series placed around Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County in 1903 by the Reverend James Powers Smith, who had been a lieutenant on the staff of Confederate Lieutenant General Thomas J. Jackson. The monuments were largely paid for by businessman Thomas F. Ryan.
Other Smith monuments are the Lee-Jackson Bivouac at Chancellorsville, Arm of Stonewall Jackson at Ellwood, Stuart and Pelham at Fredericksburg, Lee’s Hill at Fredericksburg, Battle of Salem Church, Stonewall Jackson died at Guinea Station, Lee to the Rear at the Wilderness, and Lee’s Headquarters at Spotsylvania.
Text from the monument:
Jackson
on the field
Dec. 12-13, 1862
Location of the monument
The monument is on the left side of the footpath that climbs out of the north side of the parking area to the overlook. (38°14’53.8″N 77°26’07.6″W)