Pender, William Dorsey

Life Span
to
    Full name
    William Dorsey Pender
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    2
    Family
    James Pender (father), Sarah Routh (mother), Mary Frances Shepperd (wife)
    Education
    West Point (US Military Academy)
    Occupation
    Military
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Military
    US military (Pre-Civil War)
    Confederate Army

    William Dorsey Pender (American National Bibliography)

    Scholarship
    Dorsey Pender was one of the most outstanding North Carolinians in Confederate service. General A. P. Hill termed him "an excellent officer, attentive, industrious and brave." General Robert E. Lee felt that Pender's "promise and usefulness as an officer were only equaled by the purity and excellence of his private life." Later that same year, Lee paid an even higher tribute to the Carolinian. "I am gradually losing my best men," the commander wrote Jefferson Davis, beginning his list with the names "Stonewall" Jackson and Dorsey Pender.
    James I. Robertson, "Pender, William Dorsey," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/04/04-00773.html.
    Date Event
    - Battle of Gettysburg
    How to Cite This Page: "Pender, William Dorsey," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6379.