After Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson died on May 10, 1863, from wounds suffered a week earlier at the Battle of Chancellorsville, his body was taken first to Richmond for public mourning and then to Lexington for burial. Much of the trip was by train, but the final leg was by water aboard the James River and Kanawha Canal packet boat Marshall. On Wednesday, May 13, the train carrying Jackson’s remains arrived at Lynchburg’s Orange and Alexandria Railroad station at 6:30 P.M. Businesses closed, church bells tolled, cannons fired, and large crowds gathered, and an evening service was held in First Presbyterian Church. The coffin was then placed aboard the Marshall, and mules pulling by towlines moved it slowly upriver. The boat, also carrying Jackson’s widow, Anna Morrison Jackson, reached Lexington the next morning, and on Friday, May 15, Stonewall Jackson was buried. The Marshall, commissioned in August 1861 to carry mail and passengers on the James River and Kanawha Canal, was ninety feet long, fourteen feet wide, and had a handmade three-sixteenths-inch-thick iron hull. Its cabin, paneled with Dominican mahogany, included staterooms for male and female passengers and a dining salon where canvas sleeping berths hung at night. The boat was damaged in Lexington in June 1864 during Union Gen. David Hunter’s raid, repaired the next year, and remained in service until 1880, when the canal company went out of business and the old towpath became a railroad bed. Docked near Early Street, it later served as the home of Corbin Spencer and his sister. A flood buried the vessel in mud in 1913, and its iron hull was excavated in 1936 and placed in Riverside Park. In 2006, the Lynchburg Historical Foundation restored the hull and placed it in a protective structure.