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Memoirs of William Nelson Pendleton, D.D.,

rector of Latimer parish, Lexington, Virginia; brigadier-general c.s.a.; chief of artillery, army of northern Virginia.
Lee, Susan (Pendleton)
  
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PREFACE.
  
CONTENTS.

 I. 
CHAPTER I.
 II. 
CHAPTER II.
 III. 
CHAPTER III.
 IV. 
CHAPTER IV.
 V. 
CHAPTER V.
 VI. 
CHAPTER VI.
 VII. 
CHAPTER VII.
 VIII. 
CHAPTER VIII.
 IX. 
CHAPTER IX.
 X. 
CHAPTER X.
 XI. 
CHAPTER XI.
 XII. 
CHAPTER XII.
 XIII. 
CHAPTER XIII.
 XIV. 
CHAPTER XIV.
 XV. 
CHAPTER XV.
 XVI. 
CHAPTER XVI.
 XVII. 
CHAPTER XVII.
 XVIII. 
CHAPTER XVIII.
 XIX. 
CHAPTER XIX.
 XX. 
CHAPTER XX.
 XXI. 
CHAPTER XXI.
 XXII. 
CHAPTER XXII.
 XXIII. 
CHAPTER XXIII.
 XXIV. 
CHAPTER XXIV.
 XXV. 
CHAPTER XXV.
 XXVI. 
CHAPTER XXVI.
 XXVII. 
CHAPTER XXVII.
 XXVIII. 
CHAPTER XXVIII.
 XXIX. 
CHAPTER XXIX.
 XXX. 
CHAPTER XXX.
 XXXI. 
CHAPTER XXXI.
 XXXII. 
CHAPTER XXXII.
 XXXIII. 
CHAPTER XXXIII.
 XXXIV. 
CHAPTER XXXIV.
 XXXV. 
CHAPTER XXXV.
 XXXVI. 
CHAPTER XXXVI.
 XXXVII. 
CHAPTER XXXVII.
 XXXVIII. 
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
 XXXIX. 
CHAPTER XXXIX.
 XL. 
CHAPTER XL.
 XLI. 
CHAPTER XLI.
 XLII. 
CHAPTER XLII.
 XLIII. 
CHAPTER XLIII.
 XLIV. 
CHAPTER XLIV.
 XLV. 
CHAPTER XLV.
 XLVI. 
CHAPTER XLVI.
 XLVII. 
CHAPTER XLVII.
 XLVIII. 
CHAPTER XLVIII.
 XLIX. 
CHAPTER XLIX.
 L. 
CHAPTER L.

  
INDEX.
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I.—Birth and Ancestry  7 
II.—Family Life in Virginia  15 
III.—School—Days and Boyhood  21 
IV.—Life at West Point  25 
V.—First Year of Army Life  30 
VI.—Garrison Life  35 
VII.—Marriage—Professor at West Point  41 
VIII.—Life at Fort Hamilton  49 
IX.—Life at Bristol College  55 
X.—A Summer's Engineering  62 
XI.—Life at Newark College  69 
XII.—Opening of the Episcopal High School of Virginia  72 
XIII.—Pecuniary Trouble—Withdrawal from the High School  79 
XIV.—life in Maryland  83 
XV.—Becomes Rector of all Saints' Church, Frederick, Maryland  90 
XVI.—Family Affliction  93 
XVII.—Life in Frederick—Resignation of the Parish  99 
XVIII.—Removal to Lexington, Virginia  102 
XIX.—Agent for the Sunday—School Union  107 
XX.—Work in Lexington  117 
XXI.—Work in Lexington—Continued  122 
XXII.—Breaking Out of the War  131 
XXIII.—The Rockbridge Artillery  140 
XXIV.—Colonel of Artillery—First Battle of Manassas  146 
XXV.—Summer of 1861—Increase of Artillery Force  154 
XXVI.—Winter at Centreville—Opening of the Spring Campaign  169 
XXVII.—To the Peninsula and Back Again  179 
XXVIII.—Defence of Richmond—Seven Days' Battles  187 
XXIX.—Summer of 1862  199 
XXX.—Advance into Maryland—Battle of Sharpsburg  210 
XXXI.—Fall and Winter of 1862  226 
XXXII.—First Battle of Fredericksburg  239 
XXXIII.—Winter and Spring of 1863—Battle of Chancellorsville  250 
XXXIV.—Summer of 1863—Invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania  269 
XXXV.—Battle of Gettysburg  282 
XXXVI.—After Gettysburg—Bristow Station—Mine Run—Home
on Furlough—Colonel Pendleton's Marriage 		 295 
XXXVII.—Return to Camp—Sent to Dalton to Reorganize General
J. E. Johnston's Artillery 		 312 
XXXVIII.—From the Wilderness to Cold Harbor  323 
XXXIX.—Summer of 1864—Hunter's Advance Up the Valley—Siege
of Petersburg 		 339 
XL.—Early's Advance into Maryland  360 
XLI.—Death of Colonel Sandie Pendleton  368 
XLII.—Opening Weeks of 1865—Sheridan's Advance Up the
Valley 		 383 
XLIII.—Evacuation of Petersburg—Surrender at Appomattox  393 
XLIV.—Return Home—Resumption of Parish Work—Conditions
of Daily Life 		 407 
XLV.—Personal Indignities—Closing of the Church—Rallying
Against Disaster in the State and Diocese—Reopening
of Washington College and the Virginia Military Institute
-Return of Virginia to Connection with the
General Convention 		 422 
XLVL.—Again Rector of Latimer Parish—Pecuniary Difficulties
—Constant Work–Aid for South Carolina—Letters 		 435 
XLVII.—Distinguished Professors in Lexington—Efforts to Enlarge
the Church—Parochial and Family Troubles-Death
of General R. E. Lee—Letters 		 444 
XLVIIL.—Monument and Memorial Church for General R. E. Lee
Proposed—Southern Tour to Raise Money—School for
Little Boys—Failing Health 		 454 
XLIX.—New Church Begun—Voyage to Halifax and England—
Death of Miss and Mrs. Lee—Second Tour to Raise
Money—Connection with Diocesan Work—Letters 		 462 
L.—Golden Wedding—Illness—Work to the Last—Death  474 

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