1. Alexander Swift Pendleton was an officer on the staff of Confederate Generals Thomas J Jackson, Richard S Ewell and Jubal A Early during the American Civil War.
20 Facts About Sandie Pendleton
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Sandie Pendleton was born in Alexandria, DC which is Alexandria, Virginia, the only son of Episcopal priest and future Confederate General William N Pendleton and his wife Anzolette Elizabeth Page.
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Sandie Pendleton's father was the first principal of Episcopal High School in Alexandria, but left in 1844 to establish a private school for boys near Baltimore, Maryland as well as serve as rector of two nearby parishes.
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Between 1847 and 1853, the Pendleton family lived in Frederick, Maryland while Rev Pendleton served at All Saints Church.
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Sandie Pendleton studied at a private school for boys, since his parents thought that as the only boy in a household of girls and delicate in health, he needed association with other boys to develop manly qualities, although Sandie Pendleton experienced bullying there because of those same issues.
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When Sandie was 13, the family moved to Lexington, Virginia, because of the free tuition available at Washington College to ministers' sons, as well as because Latimer Parish offered Rev Pendleton a job and he thought he could supplement his income by opening a boarding school for younger boys.
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Sandie Pendleton completed the course of studies at Washington College in three years, during which he met Maj.
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Sandie Pendleton graduated at the top of his class in 1857 and delivered the commencement address on the character of Virginia exemplified in the patriots of 1776 such as his ancestors.
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At Harper's Ferry, Sandie Pendleton reported for duty and temporarily worked with the Rockbridge Artillery, a volunteer unit his father had organized and brought there a few weeks earlier.
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Sandie Pendleton soon showed his capabilities as a staff officer and his valor at the First Battle of Bull Run.
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Sandie Pendleton then returned with Jackson to the Shenandoah Valley to launch the Maryland Campaign in the summer of 1862, which culminated in the bloody Battle of Antietam.
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Jackson later promoted him to his staff's adjutant general, and Sandie Pendleton continued to serve Jackson in every battle until the latter's death at the Battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863.
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When Union forces attacked on September 22,1864, Sandie Pendleton was fatally wounded in the abdomen.
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Sandie Pendleton was moved to the nearby town of Woodstock, where he died the following day.
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Sandie Pendleton met Catherine "Kate" Carter Corbin when General "Stonewall" Jackson and his troops were stationed at her father's Moss Neck Manor near Fredericksburg during the winter of 1862.
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Sandie Pendleton is buried beside her second husband in Lexington, near her first husband and where Stonewall Jackson was originally buried.
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Sandie Pendleton's family was one of the First Families of Virginia.
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Sandie Pendleton's mother was Lucy Nelson, daughter of Hugh Nelson of York County, Virginia and niece of Revolutionary War Governor Thomas Nelson.
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Anzolette Sandie Pendleton was the granddaughter of both Governor Nelson and Governor John Page.
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Sandie Pendleton was portrayed by Jeremy London in the 2003 Civil War film Gods and Generals, and was a minor character in the Jeff Shaara book of the same name.