The correspondence was written in regard to Pickett's research for his book HISTORY OF ALABAMA AND INCIDENTALLY OF GEORGIA AND MISSISSIPPI FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES.
(In the photograph, the collar has the insignia of general, but the uniform does not have the standard button arrangement for a general.) Originally served in the U.S. Navy and later commanded merchant marine steamships. Commissioned as a captain...
(Photograph retouched to show him in a brigadier general's uniform.) Graduated from West Point, 1837; Seminole War and Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in April 1861 to join the Confederate cause and was commissioned as a...