Reinterment of LaSalle Corbell Pickett United Daughters of the Confederacy ~ Virginia Division Military Order of Stars and Bars ~ Virginia Society Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia March 22, 1998

The 42nd Virginia Infantry Regiment had the honor of serving as the flag detail for the reburial of LaSalle Corbell Pickett, the widow of Confederate General George E. Pickett of "Pickett's Charge" fame.

When Mrs. Pickett died in 1931, she was denied burial next to her husband in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery. [See the Virginia Division UDC Web site for details.] When the mausoleum in which she was eventually interred was condemned in 1997, the Virginia Division UDC and the Virgina Society MOS&B determined to reunite the couple, and the call went out for reenactor units to assist in the reinterment.

Members of the 42nd Virginia hold the Stainless Banner over Mrs. Pickett's grave as Mrs. John H. Gum, Virginia Division UDC president, reads a passage from Scripture.

The 42nd was also charged with raising the Stainless Banner (General Pickett's favorite flag) over Hollywood Cemetery. The unit is shown here saluting the colors. Front row (L to R): Matt Rzegocki, Dean McElroy, Ken Lawson (president); back row: Jim Carr, Doug Kopash, Jim Fletcher.

Mrs. Pickett was reinterred directly in front of the monument that was built over her husband's grave in 1888.