Museum at the Chandler House-War Comes to Fairfield - Woodford VA
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Don.Morfe
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War brought profound changes to the Chandler family, Fairfield, and the slaves who toiled on the plantation. Three of Thomas Chandler’s sons enlisted in the Confederate army.
Waymark Code: WM18M6K
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 08/21/2023
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There are a few exhibits in the Chandler family house, Fairfield Plantation including the bedroom where Confederate General Stonewall Jackson died on May 10, 1864.
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War Comes to Fairfield-War brought profound changes to the Chandler family, Fairfield, and the slaves who toiled on the plantation. Three of Thomas Chandler’s sons enlisted in the Confederate army. When the Union army occupied Fredericksburg in 1862 many of Chandler’s slaves seized freedom, leaving the family without its customary workforce.
In December 1862 the Confederates established a major supply depot at Guinea Station, just a few hundred yards from Fairfield’s back door. Camps sprawled across the plantation. Stonewall Jackson himself camped here for a week, declining the Chandler’s offer to stay in the house. Instead he pitched a tent nearby.
By 1863 Chandler had had enough: he sold Fairfield. But before the Chandlers could move away, Fairfield’s most famous visitor would return yet again – this time not to camp but to die. Jackson’s death here propelled the plantation to a fame it had never known.
(caption of picture): Jackson arrived at Fairfield for the last time on May 4, 1863. By then the plantation was a vast camp, crowded with thousands of Union prisoners and Confederate wounded.
Theme:
Cultural History
Street Address:
12019 Stonewall Jackson Road, Woodford, VA 22580
Food Court: no
Gift Shop: no
Hours of Operation:
Building Late Summer 2023 Schedule Summary
Schedule in effect August 13, 2023 – October 21, 2023
Park grounds are open sunrise to sunset.
Cost: 0.00 (listed in local currency)
Museum Size: Small
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