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John Pelham
Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: March 17, 2013
Caption: John Pelham
Additional Description: Twenty-four-year old Maj. John Pelham won a sterling reputation commanding Confederate artillery on the battlefields of Antietam and Fredericksburg. He was in Culpeper County courting Elizabeth Shackleford, the daughter of a local judge, when the sound of guns at Kelly's Ford called him to battle. He died in her parlor that night. From Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War (1911)
Submitted: April 6, 2013, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p237884
File Size: 2.369 Megabytes

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