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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: March 17, 2013
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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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