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247 NOT E S Abbreviations Ashe-Pender, CWC S. A. Ashe, Reminiscences, “Wm. Dorsey Pender,” Folder 45, Box 71, CWC Clark, North Carolina Walter Clark, Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from Regiments North Carolina in the Great War 1861–’65, 5 vols. (Raleigh: E. M. Uzell, 1901; reprint, Wendell, N.C.: Broadfoot, 1982) CWC Civil War Collection, NCSA DU William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C. Hassler, The General William Dorsey Pender, The General to His Lady: The Civil War Letters of William Dorsey Pender to Fanny Pender, ed. William W. Hassler (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1965) NA National Archives, Washington, D.C. NCSA North Carolina State Archives, Division of Archives and History, Raleigh OR The War of the Rebellion: The Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies in the War of Rebellion Pender-CWC Folder 45, Box 71, Maj. Gen. William Dorsey Pender Papers, Civil War Collection, NCSA Pender-PC William Dorsey Pender Papers, Private Collections, NCSA SHC-UNC Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill USMA U.S. Military Academy Library, West Point, N.Y. VHS Virginia Historical Society, Richmond WDP William Dorsey Pender Introduction 1. R. E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, Sept. 23, 1863, OR, 29(2):743. 2. Gallagher, Lee, 432. Early rather diplomatically explained, “There was enough glory won by the Army of Northern Virginia for each state to have its full share and be content with it, and there is no occasion to wrangle over the distribution of honors.” Quoted in ibid. 248 notes to pages 3–8 3. McWhiney and Jamieson, Attack and Die, 15. 4. See Gallagher, Stephen Dodson Ramseur; and Carmichael, Lee’s Young Artillerist; and Last Generation. Carmichael’s young Virginians constituting the “last generation” before the Civil War demonstrated many of the character elements that Pender exhibited. 5. Carmichael, Last Generation, 164. 6. The statement appeared in an 1894 address by Raleigh attorney and historian William A. Montgomery, who attributed it to Confederate general G. C. Wharton, “in the shape of an extract from a letter written from Radford, Va., on September 5, 1893, to James M. Norfleet, Esq., of Tarboro.” Wharton observed, “After explaining his wishes and giving the necessary orders [concerning troop dispositions] I was about leaving General Lee’s headquarters, when Gen. A. P. Hill, an old friend and school-mate, rode up.” He overheard the conversation that developed between the two men “in regard to the movement of the troops and the result of the recent campaign in Maryland and Pennsylvania, specially in regard to the ill-fated battle of Gettysburg.” Wharton recalled that “General Lee said with sadness, ‘I ought not to have fought the battle of Gettysburg; it was a mistake.’ Then, after a short hesitation, he added: ‘But the stakes were so great I was compelled to play; for if we had succeeded, Harrisburg, Baltimore and Washington were in our hands; and’ (with emphasis) ‘we would have succeeded had Pender lived.’” Quoted in Montgomery, Life and Character of Pender, 26. D. H. Hill related the same basic scenario and Lee’s admission and assessment of Gettysburg in North Carolina, vol. 4 of Evans, Confederate Military History, 337. See also Ashe-Pender, CWC, 10. 7. Tucker, High Tide at Gettysburg, 389, 391–92. 8. Freeman, Lee’s Lieutenants, 3:xxx. 9. Foote, Civil War, 2:520. 10. Barton, Goodmen, 43. 11. “In Memoriam,” newspaper clipping, n.d., Blackford Family Papers, Special Collections, Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Reprinted in Tarboro (Va.) Southerner, Sept. 19, 1863. 12. Hassler, The General, 261. The phrase or variations of it have been popular among students of Pender because it reflects the values the North Carolinian embraced so fully. See Samito, “‘Patriot by Nature, Christian by Faith’”; and Simpson, “‘Patriot by Nature, Soldier by Training, Christian by Faith.’” Chapter One 1. This composite sketch of Pender’s birth and family comes from Hassler, The General, 3, 265; Diket, wha hae wi’, 1; S. T. Pender, “Life of General Pender,” Pender Papers, SHC-UNC, 1; and Williams and Griffin, Bible Records of Early Edgecombe, 199. 2. WDP to My dear Wife, Camp 5 miles of Richmond, Va., June 8, 1862, SHC-UNC; Hassler, The General, 154. Unfortunately, a rift between Fanny and David prompted the remark. Nevertheless, Hassler described David on two occasions as Dorsey’s “favorite brother.” Ibid., 22, 260. 3. Samito, “‘Patriot by Nature, Christian by Faith,’” 167. 4. Turner and...
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