Lacy, J. Horace, 1823-1906

Civil War Confederate Army Officer. He was a prominent businessman, civic leader, and farmer. The son of a Presbyterian minister, he married Betty Churchill Jones. James Lacy acquired the Fredericksburg area property known as Chatham in 1857 from the estate of his deceased sister-in-law, Hannah Coalter, and throughout the Civil War the plantation house was known as the Lacy House. This house was occupied as Union headquarters at various times during the Civil war. Also, his family owned the Ellwood Plantation in Spotsylvania, Va., where General Stonewall Jackson's amputated arm is buried. Lacy's brother, Beverley Tucker Lacy, was Stonewall's chaplain who recovered the amputated arm, and buried it there. James Power Smith, one of Jackson's staff officers, who married Lacy's daughter, placed a marker for the arm in the Ellwood cemetery in 1903. Enlisting in the C.S.A. Army in 1861, James Horace Lacy was commissioned into Field & Staff CS Gen & Staff as a Major. He was captured after visiting his family for his birthday in June 1861; he was then emprisoned at Ft. Delaware, being exchanged in September, 1861. He returned to the C.S.A. Army to serve as Major, QuarterMaster, in various Departments through the end of the war.