Commission from Governor John Letcher appointing John Pelham "Captain of Artillery in the Provisional Army of the State of Virginia."
John Pelham, a native of Anniston, Alabama, attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point until the start of the Civil War. He served as an artillerist for General J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry at the battles of First Bull Run, Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, but he died from injuri...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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