Ellwood Manor
The gate on the driveway to the house was locked, but I walked the 1/2 mile to the house anyway to see if anyone was home. Sadly, neither Ellwood nor his brother Jake was there.
Stonewall Jackon’s Arm Burial Site
I jest; this house served both as a hospital and a general’s headquarters for both the US Army and the CSA Army at different times during the Civil War. It is also, or maybe not, the burial place for the left arm of General Stonewall Jackson. His arm was amputated after a friendly fire accident at the Battle of Chancellorsville on the second of May 1863. Either way, after amputation, it was buried in the family cemetery of the owners of Ellwood Manor. My friend Richard is an avid Civil War buff, and he regaled me with a fanciful story of the arm and I have asked him to write it out in an email, and if I get it, I’ll add it here. But for now I leave this bit of wit from him:
Confederate General Robert E. Lee referred to Stonewall Jackson as “my right arm,” so what is buried there is the left arm of Lee’s right arm.
