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Stonewall Jackson's Arm Grave

Locust Grove, VA

After Stonewall Jackson was accidentally shot by Confederate troops at Chancellorsville in 1863, surgeons amputated his left arm and a chaplain buried it in the Lacy family cemetery at Ellwood Manor. Jackson himself died days later and was buried in Lexington, leaving this small marked arm grave as one of Virginia's strangest Civil War burial sites; access follows National Park Service and Ellwood hours.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: nps.gov/places/000/stonewall-jackson-arm.htm

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