Country United States County Caroline Area code(s) 804 Elevation 41 m | State Virginia Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) GNIS feature ID 1495630 Local time Saturday 11:23 AM | |
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Guinea is an unincorporated community in Caroline County, Virginia, United States. Guinea is 8.5 miles (13.7 km) northwest of Bowling Green. The modern spelling of the name has been altered from the earlier "Guiney" or "Guiney's", so called after an old Caroline County family, the Guineys (also spelled Guinney, Gwinny, or Ginny in various records). Guinea was the site of a Civil War era railroad station on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad known as Guiney's Station.
Map of Guinea, Port Royal, VA 22580, USA
About four thousand captured Union soldiers were collected at Guiney's station after the Battle of Chancellorsville.
General Robert E. Lee ordered the wounded General Stonewall Jackson to be taken away from the field hospital at the front lines near Chancellorsville, Virginia to a safer location at Guiney's Station. The location is notable as being the place where Confederate General Stonewall Jackson died on May 10, 1863. Stonewall Jackson's remains were placed on a one-car train at Guiney's Station on the morning of Monday, May 11, 1863 for transport to Richmond.