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Jackson. Stuart posts his men behind stone walls to either side of modern-day Route 50. The Union force Stuart opposes outnumbers him 3 to 1.
Once again, it is time for courage.
Personal courage and honor are part of a code of gallantry in this war that prevails throughout the ranks on both sides. And in few are these traits so conspicuously merged as in Major John Pelham, head of Stuart’s Horse Artillery, who, at the age of 24, is to be called upon time and again on this day—and on so many others—to perform feats of heroism with his small battery of field pieces.
At one point Pelham sights one of his guns and hits the color-guard of the 7th Indiana Infantry at 800 yards. Another time., Pelham single-handedly takes a mountain howitzer to a hill on the Union flank and changes the course of the battle with it.
This sort of valor earned Pelham the sobriquet, “The Gallant Pelham." After Pelham’s similar single-handed derring-do at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Lee remarked: “It is glorious to see such courage in one so young!"
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