 Picture Courtesy of M. Scott Roth
Just 1.7 miles west, on this road (then the Orange Plank Road), Lt. Gen. Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson was wounded by friendly fire about 9:30 P.M. on 2 May 1863 during the Battle of Chancellorsville. Having brilliantly executed a flanking maneuver against the Federals, Jackson, with eight aides, was returning from a reconnaissance between the lines. When skirmishing erupted, they were mistaken for Federals in the darkness and fired on by the 18th N.C. Infantry, killing four and wounding Jackson. After a battlefield amputation of his left arm, Jackson was taken 17 miles southeast to Guinea Station, where he died on 10 May from infection.
Department of Historic Resources 1997
VA Rt. 3 (westbound) near Chancellorsville Spotsylvania County Virginia
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