Ellwood Manor, circa 1790, is perched on a knoll in Spotsylvania overlooking the Wilderness Run tributary. The Marquis de Lafayette breakfasted at the home, now a National Park Service property, during his 1824-25 grand tour of the U.S. The former slave plantation served as a Confederate hospital after the Battle of Chancellorsville and as Union Gen. G.K. Warren's headquarters during the Battle of the Wilderness. The 5,000-acre estate is on the Wilderness Battlefield, which sits in Spotsylvania and Orange counties. On the Ellwood property is a marker denoting the burial site of Confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's amputated left arm.
