![]() ![]() But his love for the South, and especially for his State, called him home consequently he crossed the line in April, disguised as one of General Scott's couriers. His standing in the class was low, but his commission was passed on, and he would have received it had he remained a week longer. John Pelham was appointed to the United States Military Academy from Alabama July 1, 1856, aged seventeen years and nine months, through the influence of the representative of his district, the Hon. His mother was a Miss McGehee, whose family came from Person county, N. Atkinson Pelham, came to the county from Kentucky in 1837, and was for many years a prominent physician. Lee) was born in Calhoun county, Ala., near Alexandria, September 7, 1838. The gallant Pelham (as he was called by General R. Pelham and Breathed were in the same battery kindred spirits indeed loyal to the cause of the South terrible hard fighters, with a stubbornness that would not yield an aggressiveness that was irresistible. Lee to the most humble private in the ranks. I come before you again asking that I be granted the same courtesy, that I may place upon the grave of the gallant Major John Pelham (the organizer and first captain of the celebrated Stuart Horse Artillery) a few forget-me-nots and sprigs of laurel, that those who did not have the great privilege of knowing the gallant boy-major may read in a measure of what manner of man he was and how he was esteemed by all of those whom he came in contact with, from the immortal R. The Times-Dispatch very kindly gave me space in their widely circulated paper and published the above mentioned tribute. Sir,-There appeared in the Times-Dispatch of February 16th over my signature a few words of tribute to Major James Breathed, of the Stuart Horse Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia. General Lee Called Him "the Gallant Pelham"-Records Prove His Bravery. ![]()
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