William Dorsey Pender

Name PENDER, William Dorsey
Born February 6 1834, Edgecomb Cty NC
Died July 18 1863, Staunton VA
Pre-War Profession Clerk, West Point 1854, duty on the Pacific coast, resigned March 1861.
War Service 1861 Capt. of CSA Artillery, recruiting duty in Baltimore, May 1861 Col. of 13th North Carolina, Peninsula campaign, Seven Pines, June 1862 Brig. Gen., commanded Pender's Bde/Hill's Light Division at Cedar Mountain, Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, May 1863 Maj. Gen., commanded Pender's Divn/III Corps, Gettysburg (w), did not recover from infection and amputation.
Notes One of the best fighting generals in the ANV.
Further reading
Diket, A L wha hae wi* {Pender} ... bled New York, Vantage Press 1979
Pender, William Dorsey The general to his lady : the Civil War letters of William Dorsey Pender to Fanny Pender Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press 1965