This is the most famous monument at the Spotsylvania Battlefield. It is the to NJ 15th Regiment Volunteers. It is said that on this field, the fighting was so intense, that a tree that was 18 inches thick on the truck was cut down by the bullets hitting it. © Mike Lynaugh
This is the site of one of the most unusual events of the Civil War. After Stonewall Jackson was shot in the left arm at the Battle of Chancellorsville (3 miles away from here), he had been taken to this land and under a tent that was set up, he had his left arm amputated. After the amputation, his doctor, Doctor Hunter McGuire noticed his arm laying on the floor outside of the tent. It was normal for all amputated limbs to be thrown into a pile and buried in a mass grave...well, Dr. McGuire did not feel it was appropriate to bury General Jackson's arm in a mass grave, so he set out into this field and buried his arm separately and paid proper respects to it. It has been unearthed twice since that time. Once the Union army unearthed it to see if it was really there, then again in 1914, the United States Marine Corps did the same and to make sure it remained here safe and undisturbed. © Mike Lynaugh
The Ewell House. This home became the center point for two battles during the Civil War. It is the point in which during the Battle of Chancellorsville, that the wounded, including Stonewall Jackson, were brought here to makeshift hospital tents set up on this land. The home is also right on the edge of where fighting again erupted a year later during the battle of the Wilderness. © Mike Lynaugh
The Ohio monument on the battlefield at Spotsylvania, VA. The fighting was so intense at this field, they say a tree that was 18 inches wide at the trunk was cut down by the bullets hitting it. © Mike Lynaugh