page_title: Ellwood Manor
section_title: The Civil War
hierarchical_section_title: Ellwood Manor / The Civil War
caption_attribution_description: Ellwood cemetery grove with Stonewood Jackson Arm memorial
context_page_description: Ellwood Manor is the Georgian-style home completed circa 1790 by William Jones, formerly in Spotsylvania County, Virginia but now in Orange County, Virginia. For more than a century, it was the center of a large, thriving plantation not far from the Chancellorsville crossroads on the Plank Road between Fredericksburg and Orange, Virginia which is now Virginia State Route 3. Not long before the American Civil War, J. Horace Lacy married William Jones' younger daughter and inherited both Ellwood and Chatham Manor.
  During the American Civil War, both Lacy brothers became Confederate officers, and caretakers managed the property when it was not being used by the armies fighting nearby. Confederate forces used Ellwood as a headquarters and then hospital after the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863. Chaplain Beverly Tucker Lacy buried General Stonewall Jackson's arm in the Jones/Lacy family cemetery at Ellwood. Before the Battle of the Wilderness the following year, Union general Gouverneur K. Warren used Ellwood as his headquarters. It later served as a Union hospital during the ultimately successful drive to Richmond. In subsequent years, Ellwood returned to its prior farming use.
context_section_description: Before the American Civil War, the educated Lacy brothers from Mississippi (J. Horace Lacy and Beverly Tucker Lacy, possible descendants of Darby Lacy who had tutored in Prince Edward County, Virginia before moving to Mississippi) acquired both Virginia properties. An outspoken proponent of slavery, J. Horace Lacy joined the Confederate Army and rose to the rank of major (with service mostly administrative); his brother Beverly Tucker Lacy (a Presbyterian minister) became the chaplain for General Stonewall Jackson, whose amputated arm was buried at Ellwood Plantation. The Lacys left Ellwood in the care of two live-in caretakers, whose Confederate sympathies caused their arrest in 1863, and jailing for some time in Washington, D.C.
  Ellwood's strategic site briefly served as Confederate headquarters, and later as the headquarters for Union generals Gouverneur K. Warren and Ambrose Burnside, as well as major Union hospital during battles for control of the strategic route to the Confederate capital.
caption: Ellwood Family Cemetery with Stonewall Jackson Arm memorial
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