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“Pickett and His Men” Book Signed by Lasalle Corbell Pickett Author & Wife of Confederate General George E. Pickett
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LaSALLE CORBELL PICKETT (1843-1931). Prolific author and lecturer, and the third wife of George E. Pickett (1861-1865), the Confederate General best known for his participation in the doomed frontal assault known as “Pickett’s Charge” during the American Civil War at Gettysburg.
1900-Dated, 2nd Edition Hardcover Book titled, “Pickett and His Men” Dual Signed by author Lasalle Corbell Pickett, and Signed, “Lasalle Corbell Pickett”, Author and the Wife of Confederate General George E. Pickett, Published by Foote & Davies, Atlanta, Fine. This Gray Hardcover Book with title in gilt on front cover and spine, measures about 6.5” x 8.5”, with 439 pages. Written by Lasalle Corbell Pickett, she has Signed “Lasalle Corbell Pickett” on the first blank page and a prior owner has also tipped in a Card Signed, “Faithfully Yours, Lasalle Corbell Pickett (Mrs. Genl. Geo. E. Pickett.)”. Inside front cover has an original newspaper clipping headed, “Gen. Pickett’s Widow is Dead” tipped in (1931) which has caused matching tone on the opposite front signature page affecting both Signed Inscriptions, wear from use to covers and spine, internal pages are mostly crisp. LaSalle Corbell Pickett (1843-1931)
LaSalle Corbell Pickett was a prolific author and lecturer, and the third wife of George E. Pickett, the Confederate general best known for his participation in the doomed frontal assault known as Pickett’s Charge during the American Civil War (1861-1865).
After her husband’s death in 1875, she traveled the country to promote a highly romanticized version of his life and military career that was generally at odds with the historical record. George Pickett emerged from the war with a strained relationship with Robert E. Lee-whom he partly blamed for the destruction of his division at Gettysburg (1863)-and accused of war crimes.
But in his wife’s history, Pickett and His Men (1899), this not-always-competent soldier was transformed into the ideal Lost Cause hero, “gallant and graceful as a knight of chivalry riding to a tournament.” This image largely stuck in the American consciousness, leaving historians to spend much of the next century attempting to separate Pickett from his myth.
Pickett and His Men is LaSalle Corbell Pickett’s first published work, initiating a thirty-year career of lecture tours, eleven additional books, and pieces written for magazines like Cosmopolitan and McClure’s. Her husband, George Pickett, was a Confederate General in the Civil War. Pickett was one of the commanders of the infamous Pickett’s Charge, the costly Confederate offensive front on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg.