RESACA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_I._Thornton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattanooga_campaign

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_campaign

Gaineswood was finished Just prior to the Civil War. When General Leonidas Polk's division of troops was camped at Demopolis in 1864, Polk stayed at Gaineswood, having been a classmate of Whitfield's at the University of North Carolina.   https://www.historic-structures.com/al/demopolis/gaineswood.php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_campaign

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Resaca

Recollections of the War https://www.militarymuseum.org/Thornton.pdf

from the March 3, 1895 San Francisco Examiner

from the July 28, 1868 San Francisco Examiner

from the August 28, 1885 Sacramento Bee

from the June 5, 1887 San Francisco Examiner

from the October 30, 1887 St. Louis Globe-Democrat

from the May 22, 1892 Los Angeles Herald

from the August 2, 1892 San Francisco Examiner

from the March 6, 1895 San Francisco Examiner 

from the August 11, 1906 Eureka (Nevada) Sentinel