22nd November 2025: Rev Beverly Tucker Lacy

22/11/2025

During the 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson rode out to plan for the next day. A shot came from the 18th North Carolina Regiment, who mistook the general and his party for Union cavalry. A musket ball had broken two bones in his right hand; the third bullet had struck him about three inches below the left shoulder, severing the artery and breaking the bone. Having applied a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. McGuire, his doctor, administered whiskey and morphine; the anaesthetic took effect. Jackson’s chaplain, the Rev. Beverly Tucker Lacy, arrived the next day. He held a bedside prayer service; Lacy later took Jackson’s amputated arm to James Horace Lacy’s nearby Ellwood plantation and buried it in the Lacy family cemetery.

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