BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Guinea Station -- Jackson Shrine

VA -- Guinea Station -- Jackson Shrine:

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1. SHRINE_970717_01.JPG: Jackson Shrine; TC Chandler's Fairfield Plantation
2. SHRINE_970717_02.JPG: Jackson Shrine; Jackson's Bed
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Description of Subject Matter: During the battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was wounded on May 2 by his own men. His arm was amputated (buried at the Lacy House) and then he was moved south by carriage for treatment. He was to be put on a railroad train at Guinea Station but Union cavalry had destroyed the lines south of the station and he was put up in the caretaker's house at Fairfield plantation. There, he briefly recovered and then succumbed to pneumonia. He died in this house on May 10.
A year later, Union forces under Grant would move through this area. Gen. Winfield Hancock's Union Second Corps left Spotsylvania Court House after sunset on May 20, 1864. It trudged south along dark roads, headed toward Milford Station on the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad. Grant had ordered Hancock to Milford in the hope of luring the Confederate army out of its Spotsylvania trenches to a place where he could attack it and have the advantage.
Hancock reached Guinea Station about dawn, May 21. Pickets of the 9th Virginia Cavalry fired at the Union column, then disappeared to spread the alarm. Hancock continued south. As soon as his troops left Guinea Station, the Confederates began tearing up the Downer's Bridge, less than a mile behind you. A spirited attack by the 114th Pennsylvania Volunteers saved the bridge for the Union, however, enabling Warren's Fifth Corps to cross the river there later in the afternoon.
Grant established his headquarters at Motley House on May 21. Later, he wandered over to Fairfield and spoke to the owner about the death of Jackson. To prevent vandalism from his own men, he posted a Union guard to protect the property.
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1997 photos: Since 1984, I've lived in Silver Spring, Maryland. From 1981 to 2002, photos were taken using a Pentax ME Super camera. From 1989 to 2002, I was doing all pictures as prints (instead of slides which I had grown up on). In 1997, at the age of 40, my photo obsession began and I started taking thousands of photos per year. In September, 2002, I switched to digital cameras and the number of photos exploded. Image quality is going to be variable because these are scans of slides and/or prints. The images shown here were scanned in two phases. In the early years of the website, I rescanned a selection of pre-digital images, all at fairly low quality settings. During the COVID pandemic, I launched the Great Rescanning Effort, rescanning ALL of my pre-digital images from various media (prints, slides, negatives, etc) at higher resolution and quality settings. Mutilple versions of images -- some from the initial scannning phase, some from prints, some from slides/negatives -- were posted so there are frequently duplicate images on the same page. At some point, I hope to have time to do a final review and get rid of the duplicates but that'll have to wait until all of the pre-digital images are finally posted. Trips this year: North Carolina (Dad), Florida (Mom), using a time share in Arkansas to visit Civil War sites in Missouri, Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. The Civil War became my excuse to see places I'd never been to in my life and it was a great motivator for 20 years or so.
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