from the April 28, 1889 San Francisco Examiner: "The Thorntons were granted by King George thirty miles of land along the River Rappahannock in Virginia and they owned the famous places known as 'Fall Hill' and 'Chatham', known during the war as the famous 'Lacy House', around which the Union and Confederate troops often fought."  https://staffordcountymuseum.com/artifact/lucy-house/

from the March 3, 1895 San Francisco Examiner https://npsfrsp.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/coaxing-snowden-and-fall-hill-out-of-the-shadows/

From The Link: With nearly 200,000 combatants—the greatest number of any Civil War engagement—Fredericksburg was one of the largest and deadliest battles of the Civil War. It featured the first opposed river crossing in American military history as well as the Civil War’s first instance of urban combat.   https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/fredericksburg

Scenes of Destruction in Fredericksburg https://npsfrsp.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/images-of-destruction/

http://john-banks.blogspot.com/2019/01/scene-sickens-sight-destruction-of.html

https://www.loc.gov/item/2012647804/