This afternoon, I visited two places pretty close to my undisclosed location. One was the first place in this area that I stopped at back in December of 2022. I explored the other one for the first time today. I went back to the site of the Battle of the Wilderness and took this picture of a cannon and two caissons.
Unlike during my previous visits, I decided to take a hike, thus walking through a forest like a good Sasquatch. Before reaching the forest, I took his shot of some open area, which includes the monument to 140th New York Volunteer Infantry (which I photographed more closely during my two previous visits), a section of the trail that goes past it, and Virginia route 20.
Most of the trail that I hiked looked like this.
After returning to the parking lot, I got back in the Bigfootmobile and drove about a mile eastward to a parking lot for Ellwood Manor, which was a slave plantation before the Civil War. During the Battle of the Chancellorsville, Confederate troops used Ellwood Manor as a field hospital. The main house is closed for the season, but visitors are allowed to walk around the grounds during the daytime. A driveway leads from the parking lot to the main house, seen here.
A short walk from the house is a cemetery, in which the amputated arm of Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson is buried. It's the only marked grave there.
After Jackson's arm was amputated, his chaplain Beverley Tucker Lacy took the arm to Ellwood Manor and buried it in the cemetery. At the time, the property belonged to his brother J. Horace Lacy. To learn more, go to Visit Orange Virginia, The Journey National Heritage Area, National Museum of Civil War Medicine and the National Park Service's page on Ellwood.
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