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Title
Stonewall Jackson Death Site
Description
This is the location where the Confederate General “Stonewall” Jackson, having been accidentally injured by his own men, succumbed to pneumonia and died in 1863. At the time, it was an office building belonging to the Thomas Chandler Plantation. The site came under the ownership of the Potomac Railroad and was opened to the public in the 1920s as a “shrine” to Stonewall Jackson. It was sold to the National Park Service in 1937. All the other plantation buildings were dismantled but this one was preserved and restored by a group of women including the daughter of Thomas Chandler. The original clock, blanket, and bed on which he died in remain in place. Period-appropriate items have been placed in the rooms to evoke the time and place of his death. There are informational signs at the site describing the events that took place there. There is also a stone marker dedicated to Jackson outside the building, placed there in 1903 by a friend of Jackson. In 2019, the name of the site was changed from “Jackson Shrine” to “Stonewall Jackson Death Site.”
Source
american
Date
circa 1926
Language
English
Type
Physical Object
Identifier
2069
Date Created
circa 1926
Extent
m x m x m
Spatial Coverage
current,38.14715,-77.44045;
Access Rights
Free entrance
Audience
People interested in Civil War history
Europeana
Country
United States
Europeana Data Provider
Stonewall Jackson Death Site
Object
https://www.nps.gov/frsp/learn/historyculture/jds.htm
Europeana Type
TEXT
Physical Object Item Type Metadata
Wiki
https://www.cineg.org/wiki/index.php/Stonewall_Jackson_Death_Site
Opening hours
9am-5pm
Monument Type
Other building
Erected by
Restored by a group of interested women including a Mrs. Pendleton, daughter of Thomas Chandler.
Funded by
National Park Service
Run by
National Park Service
State
Virginia
Affiliation
Confederate