Glorious Courage: John Pelham in the Civil War (Bierle, CA) tours by James Pula

by James Pula

this historic train station accommodated thousands of wounded Union soldiers as they began their long journeys home via the railroad

and demanded a reckoning with disability and death on an ecological scale

When an army’s means and survival is predicated upon an animal whose instincts are to flee rather than fight

Glorious Courage: John Pelham in the Civil War (Bierle, CA) tours by James Pulaby Sarah Kay Bierle (Author) It is glorious to see such courage in one so young! So exclaimed Confederate General Robert E. Lee on December 13, 1862, during the battle of Fredericksburg as he watched Major John Pelham fight at least five Union batteries with just one lone gun. The dashing and handsome 24 year old Alabama officer earned the compliments and admiration of his men, the war gods of Virginia (Lee, Jackson, and Stuart), and Southern