| Location: | Spotsylvania, VA, USA |
| Description: |
October 11, 2008
Race Start 7:15 AM
6th Annual Stonewall Jackson
20-Mile Ambulance Run
Why Time Your Run&
When You Can Run Through Time
Run Information
" Awards: Cash Prize for the top Men and
Women Finishers, and Age Group winners.
" Showers: Available at the Marshall Center
immediately following the race. Bring your own toiletries.
Run Proceeds Go To: Civil War
Preservation Trust and Spotsylvania Emergency Concerns Association (SECA). The purpose
of SECA is to help needy Spotsylvania residents
who cannot be helped by the Department of Social Services.
Information: Jenny Sorensen(540) 507-7529 or visit
www.spotsylvania.va.us/parksandrec
" Race Pace: Runners must average a 12-
minute per mile race pace
Entry Fees: Postmarked by Sept. 22nd
2008 - $45; Postmarked after Sept. 22nd -
$55; Race Day Registration-$65
" Registration: Mail registration form and
check, made payable to Spotsylvania County 20-Miler to: Spotsylvania Parks
& Recreation, PO Box 28, Spotsylvania, VA
22553 or on-line at active.com
Chip timing by Kale Enterprises
" Packet Pickup: Beginning at 5:30 AM
Race Day at
Marshall Center
8800 Courthouse Rd.
Spotsylvania, Va. 22553
Parking: across the street at
Spotsylvania Middle School
Run Historic Sites along the Run
" Spotsylvania, Wilderness and
Chancellorsville Battlefields
" Portions of Gen. Stonewall Jacksons
Actual Ambulance Route
Stonewall Jackson
On Saturday, May 2, 1863, General
Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson
was wounded at the Battle of
Chancellorsville. His left arm was
amputated on Sunday, May 3rd and on
Monday, May 4th Jackson left the Field
Hospital in an ambulance. The
ambulance traveled the actual route of
the Stonewall Jackson Ambulance Run
and arrived at the Chandler House.
The route leading southwest to Todds
Tavern and on to Spotsylvania and
Guinea Station was the same route
Grant later took to Spotsylvania in
1864. Jackson died on Sunday, May
10th. A few moments before he died,
he smiled and said with apparent relief,
Let us cross over the river and rest
under the shade of the trees. |
| Jenny Sorensen |
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