Mobile County AlArchives Obituaries.....Pendleton, W. C. January 1883 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Kenneth Stacy klstacyfamily@aol.com January 28, 2007, 4:30 pm The Huntsville Weekly Democrat, 31 Jan 1883 Gen. Pendleton. ------------------ From the Mobile Register Gen. W. C. Pendleton is dead, and another of the heroes of the Confederacy has passed away. He was a brave man and a splendid officer, and as, Chief of Artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia, was one of the most prominent figures in the bloody drama that was enacted for four years in the Old Dominion. He was a clergy man before he became an artillerist, and it is related of him that he used to exclaim, at the beginning of his military career, “Fire! And may the Lord have mercy of their souls.” Two of the most gallant soldiers of the Confederacy were clergymen—Leonidas Polk and W. C. Pendleton. One fell in front of the enemy; the other has lived to return to his chosen profession, and to die full of years after many of his associates on hard fought fields had gone before him. His life has been quiet and unostentatious since the close of the great struggle, and he has devoted himself to the duties of his sacred calling. Although, no doubt, he has often “Shown how fields were won;” yet he has oftener “Allured to brighter fields and led the way.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/mobile/obits/p/pendleto814gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb