Talk:William N. Pendleton

cite checking needed

The WL Bean biography of Sandie Pendleton says at pp4-5 that his father was ordained by Bishop William Meade of Virginia, not Pennsylvania in 1838. It also says W.N. was the first principal of Episcopal High School for boys in Alexandria, Virginia--which still exists, but is now co-educational. The Bean biography continues, citing Susan Pendleton Lee's biography (out of copyright but according to a quick search not available for free on the web). Knowing area geography, W.N. is unlikely to have served in both a Baltimore parish and Easton Pennsylvania (which is north of Philadelphia) at the same time. Easton, Maryland might be possible, such as on alternate weekends, since it is on Chesapeake Bay. However, both Eastons are far from landlocked Frederick, Maryland, where the Sandie Pendleton biography places his father in 1847-53, prior to Lexington. Both Frederick and Lexington are on major north-soute routes near Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Jweaver28 (talk) 15:41, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

views on slavery

According to Bean at pp29-30, Rev. Pendleton strongly opposed the slave trade, which some in the deep South wanted to resume. However, the book, insofar as I've read, doesn't mention whether he or his immediate family owned slaves.Jweaver28 (talk) 12:02, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Pendleton’s West Point class ranking.

Pendleton was not top of his 1830 West Point class. He was fifth. Col Roscoe Griffin (talk) 05:49, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Gettysburg: Lee's order to Longstreet

Pendleton falsely claimed that Longstreet disobeyed Lee's orders...

Longstreet spent the rest of his life denying that he had ever received these orders. But according to John Bell Hood's memoirs, Longstreet had acknowledged it to him.

Letter from Hood to Longstreet, June 28th 1875: "General Lee was, seemingly, anxious you should attack that morning. He remarked to me, ' The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.' You thought it better to await the arrival of Pickett's Division — at that time still in the rear — in order to make the attack ; and you said to me, subsequently, whilst we were seated together near the trunk of a tree : ' The General is a little nervous this morning ; he wishes me to attack ; I do not wish to do so without Pickett. I never like to go into battle with one boot off.' (Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies. By J.B. Hood. P55-56. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 0DD17D7fiSSD Internet Archive)

This version confirmed by John B. Gordon, a brigade commander at Gettysburg: It now seems certain that impartial military critics, after thorough investigation, will consider the following as established: That General Lee distinctly ordered Longstreet to attack early the morning of the second day, and if he had done so, two of the largest corps of Meade's army would not have been in the fight; but Longstreet delayed the attack until four o'clock in the afternoon, and thus lost his opportunity of occupying Little Round Top… (J.B. Gordon. Reminiscences of the Civil War, P.160.) Valetude (talk) 04:57, 10 April 2020 (UTC)