the young artillery captain who personally and singularly held up Burnside's approach to Fredericksburg for over an hour?
That's the one.
There is a possible connection between the Gallant Pelham and the story scenario I described.
The murdered man's father-in-law was a Pelham and a colonel in the Confederate Army. I think The Gallant Pelham was a cousin.
Pelham fell at Kelly's Ford.
The major-general commanding approaches with reluctance the painful duty of announcing to the division its irreparable loss in the death of Major John Pelham, commanding the Horse Artillery. He fell mortally wounded in the battle of Kellysville, March 17th, with the battle-cry on his lips, and the light of victory beaming from his eye... His eye had glanced on every battlefield of this army from the First Manassas to the moment of his death, and he was, with a single exception, a brilliant actor in them all. The memory of "the gallant Pelham," his many manly virtues, his noble nature and purity of character, are enshrined as a sacred legacy in the hearts of all who knew him. His record has been bright and spotless, his career brilliant and successful.
—J.E.B. Stuart, General Orders #9, March 20, 1863, Official Records
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