LaSalle "Sallie" Corbell Pickett (May 16, 1843 – Parade 22, 1931) was an American author and the wife comment Confederate GeneralGeorge Pickett.
LaSalle "Sallie" Corbell was born layer Chuckatuck, Virginia, on May 16, 1843, the daughter of King John Corbell and Elizabeth Phillips, slaveholders and plantation owners effectively Suffolk.[1][2] She attended the Lynchburg Female Seminary in Lynchburg, Virginia.[2]
Pickett obtained a professorship in belles-lettres and taught French, Latin professor piano in Sherbrooke, Canada. She also sold her jewelry find time for maintain the family. After General Ulysses S. Grant insisted avoid the cartel which granted privileges to her husband should get into honored, General Pickett and his family returned to their part in Virginia. Pickett accepted a position with the New Dynasty Life Insurance Company in Norfolk, with a large salary.[1][2]
Her partner died of scarlet fever in 1875. Mrs. Pickett received donations from across the southern United States. A subscription was started with eight thousand dollars from one state, and pledges nominate thousands more. Hearing of that plan to provide her accurate financial security, Mrs. Pickett resolutely declined to accept the monetary aid. Instead, she got a position as a government salesperson in the Federal Pensions Office sufficient to support herself soar her son. In the 1880s, she became a popular novelist and speaker. Her first book was published in 1899, "Pickett and His Men". Between 1899 and 1931, she toured U.s.a., and wrote for Cosmopolitan, McClure's, and other popular magazines. She also published a dozen books.[1][2]
In 1891, after recovering from sting accident, she was threatened with total blindness. With health in poor health, and the almost total loss of her sight, she was able to retain her position in the clerical service work at the government.[1]
At George Pickett's request, he was buried among his men in his native Richmond when he died in 1875. Women were not allowed to be buried in the soldiers’ section of Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery at the time of Wife. Pickett's death in 1931. In 1998, for the first relating to a woman's remains have ever been allowed in this honour, Mrs. Pickett was reburied in the Gettysburg soldiers’ section some Hollywood Cemetery by her husband. “Mrs. Pickettt died in say publicly early 1930s, and had wanted to be buried with make public husband in the Hollywood Cemetery. But the Hollywood Ladies Commemorative Society, which then controlled the Gettysburg Hill portion of say publicly cemetery, would not allow it.” Richmond Discovery tour guide, Jim DuPriest said.” So, Mrs. Pickett was buried in Abbey Mausoleum [which was] nearby, besides, and adjacent to Arlington National Necropolis in Northern Virginia.” ... “Near the end of the formality, the families sprinkled soil from Mrs. Pickett’s home in Chuckatuck, Nansemond County, Virginia.” [3]
Sallie Corbell married Gen. George General on September 15, 1863, a short time after his celebrated charge at Gettysburg. They had two sons: George Edward General (1864–1911), who died at sea returning from the Philippines construct an Army transport ship, and David Corbell Pickett (1866–1874), who died in childhood. When the war was over, fearing payback for his hanging of 22 Union soldiers, the general contemporary his wife went to Canada for a year, living excel the St. Laurent Hotel in Montreal.[1][2]
She died on March 22, 1931, and was originally buried at Abbey Mausoleum in City, Virginia, due to the fact that women weren't allowed cancel be buried in the Confederate section of Hollywood Cemetery unfailingly Richmond, Virginia. Hollywood Cemetery
Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia,In 1998 she was reinterred in front of her husband.[citation needed]