The Perfect Lion
Author | : Jerry H. Maxwell |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2011-04-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 081731735X |
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This is a biography of John Pelham, an Alabama native who left West Point for service in the Confederacy and distinguished himself as an artillery commander in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Blond, blue-eyed, and handsome, Pelham's modest demeanor charmed his contemporaries, and he was famously attractive to women. He was killed in action at the battle of Kelly's Ford in March of 1863, at age twenty four, and reportedly three young women of his acquaintance donned mourning at the loss of the South's ?beau ideal.?.