WILLIAM DORSEY PENDER
Whether or Not the Democratic Speeches Against the manner in which the Union was conducting the Civil War was aiding the South of just fair political criticism has been debated since the war itself. This is one piece of evidence.
William Dorsey Pender was a General in the Confederacy in the American Civil War serving as a Brigade and Divisional commander. Promoted to brigadier on the battlefield at Seven Pines by Confederate President Jefferson Davis in person, he fought in the Seven Days Battles and at Second Manassas, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, being wounded in each of these engagements. Lee rated him as one of the most promising of his commanders, promoting him to major general at twenty-nine. Pender was mortally wounded on the second day of Gettysburg.
