LaSalle Corbell Pickett

[2] Pickett obtained a professorship in belles-lettres and taught French, Latin and piano in Sherbrooke, Canada.

Women were not allowed to be buried in the soldiers’ section of Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery at the time of Mrs. Pickett's death in 1931.

In 1998, for the first time a woman's remains have ever been allowed in this area, Mrs. Pickett was reburied in the Gettysburg soldiers’ section of Hollywood Cemetery by her husband.

But the Hollywood Ladies Memorial Society, which then controlled the Gettysburg Hill portion of the cemetery, would not allow it.” Richmond Discovery tour guide, Jim DuPriest said.” So, Mrs. Pickett was buried in Abbey Mausoleum [which was] nearby, besides, and adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery in Northern Virginia.” ... “Near the end of the ceremony, the families sprinkled soil from Mrs. Pickett’s home in Chuckatuck, Nansemond County, Virginia.” [3] Sallie Corbell married Gen. George Pickett on September 15, 1863, a short time after his famous charge at Gettysburg.

When the war was over, fearing retaliation for his hanging of 22 Union soldiers, the general and his wife went to Canada for a year, living at the St. Laurent Hotel in Montreal.