Major General WILLIAM  D. PENDER:

Date of Rank:   May 27, 1863
Date of Birth:  February 6, 1834  Edgecomb County, N.C.
Date of Death:   July 18, 1863  Staunton, Virginia
Cause of Death:   wounded by a fragment of shell, at Gettysburg.
                           On his way home, infection set in which resulted
                           in amputation of the leg. Did not recuperate.
Buried:   His body was taken to North Carolina and buried in the
              yard of Calvary Church at Tarboro.