Plantations on Guinea Station Road

On May 21, 1864, Union troops traveled this road as they left Spotsylvania and headed toward Guinea Station. One year earlier, “Stonewall” Jackson’s ambulance used the same road to carry the wounded Confederate general from a field hospital in the Wilderness to Thomas Chandler’s home, Fairfield. Many of the dwellings passed by Jackson and the Union army on their way to Guinea Station still exist, including Stirling across the road and others along the route. Jed Hotchkiss recalled being awakened early to guide Jackson’s ambulance to Guinea Station, writing that the general endured the ride well as they passed crowds of wounded men going the same way, cheerful and each wishing himself badly wounded instead of Jackson.

Virginia · United States