Historical Highway Markers

Jackson's Amputation

J-37

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

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