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Surnames: Cary, Pegram
Classification: Query
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"Reared near Baltimore, Hetty Cary was related to two of Virginia's
"first families," the Randolphs and the Jeffersons. War forced her to choose
between leaving home and facing imprisonment on suspicion of harboring Confederate
sympathies, so she settled in Richmond. Soon she was a leader among those working to
provide clothing, food, and other necessities for soldiers.
After nearly four years of volunteer work, her activities caught the eye of thirty-two
-year-old John Pegram, who sought and won her hand. On January 19, 1865, the refugee from
Maryland and the Confederate brigadier general were married. Hetty enjoyed this
relationship just three weeks; on February 5, the husband she found in the course of her
war work was killed in the battle of Hatcher's Run."
I am not related to Hetty or John, I am just passing on this information which comes
from a book titled "Civil War Curiosities" by Webb Garrison. 1994.
Joyce