From the Richmond Dispatch, 3/20/1863, p. 1, c. 5

Carried Home. – The body of Major Pelham, of Stuart’s horse artillery, killed by the enemy on Tuesday, in the battle near Kelly’s Ford, Culpeper county which was brought to this city on the cars Wednesday night, laid in State, until the departure of the Southern cars, in the Capitol, when it was conveyed away under military escort, to be transported to its last resting place in Alabama.

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