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William Nelson Pendleton (December 26, 1809 – January 15, 1883) was an American teacher, Episcopal priest, and Confederate soldier. He served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War, noted for his position as Gen. Robert E. Lee's chief of artillery for most of the conflict.
Description: Albany Evening Journal. Albany, NY: Dawson & Co., April 10, 1865. Vol. 36, No. 10,588. 4pp, 20.75 x 28 in. A full page notice (the entirety of page 4) of the Army of Northern Virginia's surrender at Appomattox the day before, with the bold heading "General Lee And His Army Have Surrendered!," above an enormous bald eagle with "Liberty & Union Forever" between its wings and ...
Cannons representing Hancock's defenses, stormed by Pickett's Charge Appearance of Cemetery Hill previous to Pickett's Charge, sketched by Alfred Waud. The infantry charge was preceded by what Lee hoped would be a powerful and well-concentrated cannonade of the Union center, destroying the Union artillery batteries that could defeat the assault and demoralizing the Union infantry.
Fitzhugh Lee (1835–1905), a Confederate general and later a United States Army general in the Spanish–American War, was Lee's nephew. Lee was a second cousin of Helen Keller 's grandmother, [ 34 ] and was a distant relative of Admiral Willis Augustus Lee .
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