A seasonally open circa 1800 house that was part of a 5,000 acre plantation that has been restored to it's 1864 look. The house served as the headquarters for Union General Gouverneur Warren during the Battle of the Wilderness. The house has original wainscoting and...More

If you remember your history class, General Jackson lost his arm because of friendly fire". He's buried someplace else. It's a bit of a walk to the gravesite, but it's free and interesting. I can't believe someone actually thought to give his arm a proper...More

See the grave but don’t miss the house up the hill. There are people there to tell you about the history of the house and surrounding farm.

"Weirdly interesting," as someone else noted, is an apt description. The confederate general lost an arm in battle, and it was recovered and buried here. The rest of Stonewall Jackson is buried elsewhere, in the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery in Lexington, Va., near the Virginia...More

General Jackson lost his left arm at the Battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863. His arm was buried at a cemetery located at Ellwood Manor in the Wilderness Battlefield. I work there as a volunteer and just about every time the first question people ask...More

This was the main reason we visited Ellwood House. After visiting other Civil War sites in the area, we had wanted to visit hear. Something off my bucket list.

I've just started having interest in the Civil War (it's just so complex, it was never my on the top of my American History interests). Driving around the the battlefields, in the Fredericksburg area, I remembered that Stonewall was wounded in the area and that...More