Stonewall Jackson's Legacy Is Being Reevaluated by Park Service
You have until THE END OF NOVEMBER if you want to be heard.
The National Park Service is revising how it depicts the history and legacy of Stonewall Jackson, at the very spot where he died.
After he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville, General Jackson was taken to an office building on the Fairfield Plantation, near Spotsylvania Court House. Jackson died there. The National Park Service (NPS) preserves the office building, as part of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park (FSNMP). For decades the site was known as the Stonewall Jackson Shrine; recently the NPS renamed it to the Stonewall Jackson Death Site.
In late July, visitors to the Death Site saw these three hand-lettered signs inside the building…