![]() ![]() Birmingham ALA Text from the stone in front of the bronze tablet:ĭeed of gift to Culpeper Chapter U.D.C. By The Gallant Pelham Jordan Neely, a homeless young Black man apparently suffering from mental illness, was put in a chokehold and killed by Daniel Penny, a white 24-year-old ex-marine. ![]() Text from the bronze tablet in front of the monument: Mortally wounded March 17 1863 near Kellys Ford VA In memory of Major John Pelham Born Sin Calhoun Co. The flag of the State of Alabama flies from a pole behind the monument. The monument is a small obelisk mounted on a block of stone taken from the Kelly’s Ford battlefield. He was struck in the head by fragments of an artillery shell and died the next day in Culpeper. The Gallant Pelham wayside marker is at the Pelham markers at Benchmark Road. Pelham joined in the cavalry fight at Kelly’s Ford, about four miles south of Brandy Station, Virginia, even though his artillery was not on the field. Stuart’s horse artillery, was just 22 years old and the veteran of 60 engagements when he was mortally wounded in the Battle of Kelly’s Ford three months before the Battle of Brandy Station. It is across from the Graffiti House, the historic Civil War hospital that now serves as a visitor center for the Brandy Station battlefield. People who still believe in the Lost Cause are euphemistically called apologists and accused. The myth conveniently omits the fact that the true cause of the war was slaverythe greed of the Cotton Kingdom and its slave-holding class. Judging from how he talks (and tweets), it’s clear that Donald Trump thinks he’s still President of the United States, or maybe a co-president with Joe Biden, one who has his own foreign policy, especially when it comes to the current crisis in Israel. The monument to Confederate Major John Pelham is in the town of Brandy Station, Virginia on Brandy Road. The Lost Cause is nothing but a myth portraying the Confederacy as noble and its leaders as chivalrous. ![]()
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