Fourth in a series of little known Civil War sites around Virginia.
Having been accidentally shot by his own troops after his famously
successful flanking maneuver during the Battle of Chancellorsville,
Jackson was transferred here by ambulance to begin recovery.
Pneumonia would soon take its toll instead. Aware that his death
was imminent, and happy it was a Sunday, Jackson died, May 10,
1863. Jackson's chief surgeon, Dr. Hunter McGuire made the
following record of Jackson's last words:
"A few moments before he died he cried out in his delirium,
'Order A.P. Hill to prepare for action! pass the infantry to the
front rapidly! tell Major Hawks' -- then stopped, leaving the
sentence unfinished. Presently a smile of ineffable sweetness
spread itself over his pale face, and he said quietly, and with an
expression, as if of relief, 'Let us cross over the river, and rest
under the shade of the trees.'"
Prove you found it: How many chimney's does the death house
have? Please email me the answer.