Stonewall Jackson Shrine - Guinea Station

The Stonewall Jackson Shrine is located on Stonewall Jackson Road in Woodford, Virginia.  It is a former outbuilding on the Chandler Plantation where the Confederate general spent the last six days of his life.  On the night of May 6, 1863, Jackson was mistakenly shot by his own men during the Battle of Chancellorsville, taking two bullets to his left arm, and one to his right hand.  His left arm was damaged so badly that it needed to be amputated.  He was moved south of the battlefield to Guinea Station, to recuperate and catch a train to Richmond.  Union forces had taken the railroad line, so Jackson was forced to wait until the Confederates could retake the line.  He was moved into this office building, which stands next to the site of the Chandler house.  Although he was offered a room in the main house, this was refused in favor of the more quiet outbuilding.  He wavered for several days until his condition worsened, then finally succumbed to pneumonia on May 10.  His body was removed to Richmond where it lay in state at the Governor's Mansion, then sent to Lexington for burial in the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery.  His amputed arm received its own burial, in the family cemetery at Ellwood Manor, located in the Wilderness National Military Park.  The Stonewall Jackson Shrine is the only remaining building left of the Chandler Plantation.  The main house burned shortly after the Civil War and the ruins stood until they were torn down in the early 1900's.  The Shrine was restored in the 1920's and is now maintained by the National Park Service as part of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial. 

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