Event Details (U.S. National Park Service)

Fee:

Free.

Location: LAT/LONG: 38.000000, -78.000000

Ellwood Manor is located at 36380 Constitution Hwy, Locust Grove, Virginia, about a mile east of the Wilderness Battlefield Exhibit Shelter, or about a half mile southwest from the intersection of Routes 3 and 20. Watch for the signs for Ellwood, drive up the driveway and along the dirt road for several hundred yards to the parking area.

Dates & Times

Date:

Saturday, July 2, 2022

Time:

9:00 AM

Duration:

8 hours

Type of Event

Living History

Description

Join us at Ellwood Manor this Saturday, July 2, as living historians depict the Confederate Ambulance Corps. The program will focus on Ellwood's use as a military field hospital after the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863. Park staff and volunteers dressed in period uniforms will demonstrate the treatment and transportation of casualties during and after the battle.

The site, as well as the mansion house, will be open from 9 to 5. The site, house, and living history event are all free to visit. Volunteers with the Friends of Wilderness Battlefield conduct tours through the first floor of the house, and visitors can explore exhibits on Ellwood, the nearby Civil War battles, and care of the wounded.

Ellwood Manor was a slave plantation built around 1790. At the outbreak of the Civil War it was owned by Betty & J. Horace Lacy, the family that owned Chatham Manor in Fredericksburg. Ellwood was a Confederate field hospital after the Battle of Chancellorsville and a United States Army headquarters during the Battle of the Wilderness. For more on Ellwood’s story, visit www.nps.gov/frsp/learn/historyculture/ellwood.htm.

Ellwood Manor is located at 36380 Constitution Hwy, Locust Grove, Virginia, about a mile east of the Wilderness Battlefield Exhibit Shelter, or about a half mile southwest from the intersection of Routes 3 and 20. Watch for the signs for Ellwood, drive up the driveway and along the dirt road for several hundred yards to the parking area.