LaSalle Corbell Pickett

LaSalle "Sallie" Corbell Pickett (May 16, 1843 – March 22, 1931) was an American author and the wife of Confederate General George Pickett.

Early life LaSalle "Sallie" Corbell was born in Chuckatuck, Virginia, on May 16, 1843, the daughter of David John Corbell and Elizabeth Phillips, slaveholders and plantation owners near Suffolk. She attended the Lynchburg Female Seminary in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Personal life

Sallie Corbell married Gen. George Pickett on September 15, 1863, a short time after his famous charge at Gettysburg. They had two sons: George Edward Pickett (1864–1911), who died at sea returning from the Philippines on an Army transport ship, and David Corbell Pickett (1866–1874), who died in childhood. When the war was over, fearing retaliation for his hanging of 22 Union soldiers, the general and his wife went to Canada for a year, living at the St. Laurent Hotel in Montreal.

She died on March 22, 1931, and was originally buried at Abbey Mausoleum in Arlington, Virginia, due to the fact that women weren't allowed to be buried in the Confederate section of Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.

Works Pickett and His Men (1899) Kunnoo Sperits and Others (1900) Yule Log (1900) Ebil Eye (1901) Jinny (1901) Digging Through to Manila (1905) Literary Hearthstones of Dixie (1912) The Bugles of Gettysburg (1913) The Heart of a Soldier, As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Gen'l George E. Pickett, C.S.A. (1913) Across My Path: Memories of People I Have Known (1916) What Happened to Me … (1917) Soldier of the South: General Pickett's War Letters to His Wife (edited by Arthur Crew Inman, 1928)