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Glorious Courage: The Life of Confederate John Pelham in the Army of Northern Virginia

By (author) Sarah Kay Bierle

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â€œIt is glorious to see such courage in one so young!â€ So exclaimed Confederate General Robert E. Lee on December 13, 1862, during the battle of Fredericksburg as he watched Major John Pelham fight at least five Union batteries with just one lone gun. The dashing and handsome 24-year-old Alabama officer earned the compliments and admiration of his men, the war-gods of Virginia (Lee, Jackson, and Stuart), and Southern societyâ€”all while helping transform the concept of horse artillery on Civil War battlefields across Virginia and Maryland. After Pelhamâ€™s sudden death in 1863, his place in Lost Cause memory soared and admirers firmly elevated him into the upper ranks of the Confederate pantheon. His status as a Lost Cause hero exacted a priceâ€”admirers transformed Pelhamâ€™s memory into â€œthe beau ideal of Confederate arms,â€ sometimes altering and clouding the realities of his life. His memory has been trapped there ever sinceâ€”until now. In Glorious Courage, historian Sarah Kay Bierle reconsiders Pelhamâ€™s extraordinary, if short, life by drawing on primary and other sources and her extensive knowledge of the battlefields. Pelhamâ€™s zest for living carried him from Alabama to the military academy at West Point, while his zeal in command of the Stuart Horse Artillery earned him well-deserved plaudits. But like every other man who served the Confederate cause, the remarkable young officer was a human being with flaws. He deserves his place in history as he lived it, not varnished with the perspectives shoved upon him by later generations.

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