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| | Major General William Dorsey Pender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Major-General William Dorsey Pender was born in Edgecomb county, N. C., Febrnary 6, 1834, at the country home of his father, James Pender, a descendant of Edwin Pender, who settled near Norfolk in the reign of Charles II. |
 | | The mother of General Pender was Sarah Routh, daughter of William Routh, of Tidewater, Va. He was gr'aduated at the United States military academy in 1854, the class of Custis Lee, Stephen D. Lee and J. Stuart. |
 | | Pender's first battle as a major-general was Gettysburg, and unhappily it was his last. |
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