In 1921, faced with the threat of drastic post-World War I cuts to funding, the Marine Corps under Commandant Major General John A. Lejeune held a "show and tell" session at Ellwood and an adjacent farm in the Wilderness Battlefield. It included reenactments of Civil War battles and the aerial bombing of a painted outline of a battleship in the fields across the Wilderness Run from Ellwood. President Warren G. Harding attended, and spent the night at Ellwood.
Smedley Butler, then Commander of the Quantico Marine Base, took notice of Stonewall Jackson's arm marker in the Ellwood family cemetery. He had the grave opened, and found bones matching the description of Jackson's wounded left arm. He had the bones reinterred in a metal box, and commissioned a brass plaque to be affixed to the stone marker.
The plaque is currently in curatorial storage in the archives of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. It is shown approximately actual size (about 7.9 inches wide and 4.9 inches high) if your screen is set to 1024x768 pixels.
