BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Chancellorsville Natl Battlefield -- Lacy House (Ellwood)

VA -- Chancellorsville Natl Battlefield -- Lacy House (Ellwood):

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Description of Subject Matter: The Lacy House is also known as Ellwood

"The house stands on Wilderness Run, in a lonely place about half a mile south of the Culpeper plank road; it is a good-sized farmhouse, built of wood, square, with two porticos and painted a dove color. From the apex of the roof a hospital flag still flutters in the cold November wind." -- George M Neese, Chew's Virginia Battery, November 11, 1863

Ellwood was a typical Virginia farm. Finished in 1799, the dwelling looked out over rolling farmland planted in corn, wheat, and clover. Outbuildings, including a kitchen, smokehouse, and dairy, surrounded the house. As many as one hundred slaves, their cabins scattered north and west of the main building, provided the farm with most of its labor.
The Civil War shattered Ellwood's dull routine. In May 1863, the battle of Chancellorsville came to the area. The Confederate army established a hospital in the building. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson lost his left arm during the Battle of Chancellorsville, where he was mistakenly shot by his own troops. Surgeons removed the mangled appendage at the Wilderness Tavern field hospital, one-half mile away, early on May 3, 1863.
Jackson's chaplain, the Rev B Tucker Lacy, visited the hospital later that morning. As he was leaving Jackson's tent, Lacy saw the general's amputated arm lying outside the door. He gathered up the bloody limb and carried it across the fields to his brother's estate, Ellwood, and buried it here in the family cemetery.
Jackson remained at Wilderness Tavern for just one day. On May 4, 1863, he made the 26-mile journey to Guinea Station. He died there six days later.
"He has lost his left arm; but I have lost my right arm." -- Robert E Lee on "Stonewall" Jackson

Seven months later, Union soldiers looted the house.

In May 1864, Northern and Southern soldiers engaged in a deadly struggle in the Wilderness a little more than a mile from Ellwood. Overnight the once quiet farm became a bustling mili ...More...
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