John Pulliam survived his year in the Confederate cavalry, managing to avoid injury, sickness or capture. The Jerrells lived southeast of Spotsylvania Court House, where her father operated a grist mill and ran a store.ĭr. The most momentous event in the life of John Pulliam in 1861 was his marriage to eighteen year old Lucy Noel Jerrell on 4 December. Click here to read what has become the most popular article ever published on Spotsylvania Memory. Also serving with John were his brother Thomas Coleman Pulliam and his cousin Thomas Richard Pulliam, whose self-indulgent life and violent death have recently been featured in this blog. On 15 July he enlisted in Company E of the Ninth Virginia Cavalry, my great grandfather's old regiment. The year 1861 would prove to be the most significant in the life of young Dr. He graduated in 1861, having written his thesis on the topic of digestion. Like many young men in Virginia of that time who wished to practice medicine, he then attended the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Pulliam graduated from the University of Virginia in 1859. Richard Pulliam's sister Eliza's farm lay just to the north. The Pulliam farm can be seen in the lower left portion of the map detail shown above. Named for his grandfather, John Duerson Pulliam was born in Spotsylvania on 3 November 1840 to Richard H.
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Pictures from Craig Harnden's archive that appear in today's post are designated with '(CH)'. With Craig's kind permission, I am able to share with you today this very rare look at the Pulliam family. Such a stroke of good fortune occurred earlier this year when Pulliam family researcher Craig Harnden began to post these photographs to his family tree on Ancestry. Newlyweds: John and Lucy Pulliam, 1861 (CH)Įvery so often I am privileged to come across a collection of photographs relating to one of Spotsylvania's historic families.
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