Stuart's Horse Artillery

"the 9th Virginia, the regiment which also received the oldest son of General Robert E. Lee,---
late stroke oar at Harvard, a gentleman said to be too big for a man and not big enough for a horse, called Rooney."
John Pelham commanded Stuart's Artillery. According to Thomasson he always got close to the enemy with canister. He commanded nineteen guns at Sharpsburg; fifty at Fredricksburg.
He was the only lower officer ever mentioned in General Lees official reports. He refered to him as the "Gallant Pelham."
"Jeb Stuart, riding with one of Fitz Lee's regiments as a volunteer sabre, bowed on his horse's neck and wept, when they told him of Pelham's death."
"Von Borcke was detailed to escort John Pelnam home to Alabama: the body went in an open casket, and at every stop the people thronged to see him, lying dead with the pleasant, smooth face of a boy."
There is a town in Alabama named - - - - - -

One of my favorite books: "Jeb Stuart" by John Thomasson