Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . d Bateson,of West Fifty-eighth street. This lady is the great-niece ofJefferson Davis, and granddaughter of Governor Humphreys, whose daughter Mary marriedIsaac Stamps. The only unmarried broth-er is the fourth, MarionHollingsworth, who is in theTrust Company with hisbrother. The youngest,Frank Paschal Gaillard, isin the Fifth avenue office,and recently married MissSara Stevenson Bradner, ofNew York. Closely interlinked in thelove and interests for thePegrams was one of themost beautiful and mostnotable of all war belles,Miss Hetty Gary, of Baltimore. Lee
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . d Bateson,of West Fifty-eighth street. This lady is the great-niece ofJefferson Davis, and granddaughter of Governor Humphreys, whose daughter Mary marriedIsaac Stamps. The only unmarried broth-er is the fourth, MarionHollingsworth, who is in theTrust Company with hisbrother. The youngest,Frank Paschal Gaillard, isin the Fifth avenue office,and recently married MissSara Stevenson Bradner, ofNew York. Closely interlinked in thelove and interests for thePegrams was one of themost beautiful and mostnotable of all war belles,Miss Hetty Gary, of Baltimore. Lees Army knew no better soldiers, no truer gentlemen,than the three Pegram brothers. John, the eldest, had givenhis old army sword to his state, had risen through meritto his brigade and was recommended for promotion. Hewas rarely in Richmond—was too busy with fighting forfooling, as reckless General Pierce Young phrased it—buthe had met Miss Gary at his mothers home and later atthe camps of Stuart and Fitz Lee. Like most other men,. MRS. JOHN PEGRAM(HETTY CARY) BELLES, BEAUX AND BEAINS OF THE SIXTIES 169 he loved her; hke none other, he met return and they becameengaged. Ever at the front, the Pegrams seemed to bear charmedHfe. Willie, the second, was a cool but dashing artillerisiwith two stars on his collar at an age when most men werecontent with two bars. Jimmy, the youngest—laternoted as a wit and clever man of business, from New Yorkdown f Orleans—^had ridden scathless as the adjutantof fighting old Dick Ewell Mother and sisters at homebegan almost to trust in the luck of the Pegrams. One bright spring afternoon near the end of the war asGeneral Pegram felt it to be, he married Miss Gary at Church. Another Thursday, only two weeks later,the same throng stood in the same church as grief-crushedcomrades bore up the aisle the flag-palled coffin that heldthe late bridegroom, stricken down at Hatches Run. The happy spell was broken. In the next fight WilliePegr
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