- The house was built between 1768 and 1771.
- The house was named after William Pitt, the Earl of Chatham.
- It was first owned by William Fitzhugh
- It was a working plantation.
- At the time of the Civil War the house was owned by James Horace Lacy.
- Lacy served in the Confederate army as a staff officer.
- His family abandoned the house in 1862.
- For 13 years the house was occupied by the Union army.
- It was used as a headquarters (General Irvin McDowell 1862), meeting place for Abraham Lincoln and McDowell, army hospital (Walt Whitman and Clara Barton assisted there), winter headquarters, and field hospital for the Battle of Chancellorsville.
Below are pictures that Ms. Edwards took at Chatham.
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