Album: 2019 Event: Unveiling of the Surgical Kit of Dr. Hunter McGuire

Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park

On September 27, 2019, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park unveiled the surgical kit of Dr. Hunter McGuire, on loan to the park. It has long been believed that this surgical kit is the one used by Dr. McGuire for the amputation of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's arm. The unveiling at the Chancellorsville Battlefield Visitor Center was followed by a tour of the site where Jackson was wounded, the unveiling of a new wayside exhibit near the location of Wilderness Tavern (exhibit by Spotsylvania County and Virginia's Civil War Trails), and a tour of the cemetery at Ellwood Plantation where Jackson's arm is buried.