author
La Salle Corbell Pickett
1848–1931
Remembered as a vivid storyteller of the Civil War era, she turned personal history into popular books and lectures that kept her husband’s memory in the public eye for decades. Her writing helped shape how many readers imagined the Confederacy and its aftermath.
3 Audiobooks
What Happened to Me
by La Salle Corbell Pickett
Literary Hearthstones of Dixie
by La Salle Corbell Pickett
The Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry in the Closing Scenes of the War for the Maintenance of the Union, from Richmond to Appomatox
by William B. (William Bennet) Arnold, Edward T. Bouvé, La Salle Corbell Pickett
About the author
Born in Virginia, La Salle Corbell Pickett was an American author and lecturer best known for writing about the Civil War and for her marriage to Confederate general George E. Pickett. After his death in 1875, she spent many years speaking and publishing reminiscences that presented him as a romantic, heroic figure.
Her books included Pickett and His Men and other works that blended memory, storytelling, and advocacy. Later historians have treated some of her accounts with caution, but her influence was real: she helped popularize a sentimental, enduring image of her husband and of the Confederate past.
Today she is often read both as a literary personality and as an important figure in the making of Civil War memory. Her work offers a revealing look at how personal loss, public performance, and historical myth could become tightly intertwined.