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Title: Stonewall's Man: Sandie Pendleton by W. G. Bean, Robert K. Krick ISBN: 0-8078-4875-1 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Another forgotten hero
Comment: It's not often that staff officers receive the kind of attention combat commanders do, but even in the War Between the States, when staff officers frequently had as much front-lines time as private soldiers, Sandie Pendleton was something exceptional. W.G. Bean does an excellent job showing us why.
I first encountered Alexander Swift 'Sandie' Pendleton in Douglas Southall Freeman's essential 'Lee's Lieutenants,' in which he cites the need for a comprehensive biography of this important officer. A few years later (Freeman wrote in the 1940s, and 'Stonewall's Man' was first published in 1959), W.G. Bean -- appropriately, the Douglas Southall Freeman Professor of History at Pendleton's alma mater, Washington and Lee University -- took up the challenge. This is a sympathetic, but still thorough, look at the man 'Stonewall' Jackson 'loved like a son,' and Dick Ewell called 'the most promising young man' in the Army of Northern Virginia.
Pendleton was something of an intellectual, having graduated from Washington College (later W&L University) and entered the M.A. program at the University of Virginia when the War began. His quick and organized mind was ideally suited to the needs of a military staff, and he quickly made himself invaluable to Generals Jackson and Ewell. By the time of his death in 1864, shortly before his 24th birthday, he had risen to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and was assistant adjutant general (essentially, chief of staff) of the Second Corps.
Bean does a fine job of relating all this. He also doesn't skip on the equally important details of Sandie's personal life, particularly his romance with, and marriage to, Kate Corbin. This book is filled with excerpts from Sandie and Kate's personal letters, as well as those of their families and friends. By the time the book is complete, I felt I knew Sandie well, and, with his wife and family, genuinely mourned his untimely death.
Freeman said that part of his motivation in writing 'Lee's Lieutenants' was to rescue from obscurity some of the lesser-known commanders and officers of the Confederate armies. Today, when any acknowledgement (let alone defense) of the CSA is considered in some quarters a 'hate crime,' Freeman's mission is more important than ever. I'm very pleased, therefore, that 'Stonewall's Man' has been re-released, and urge its study by anyone interested in the Army of Northern Virginia. The staff corps, too, has its heroes, and Sandy Pendleton's is a life worthy of remembering and respecting.
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Title: Hunter Holmes McGuire: Stonewall Jackson's Doctor by John W. Schildt ISBN: 1572492589 Publisher: White Mane Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: I Rode With Stonewall by H.K. Douglas ISBN: 0807803375 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1940 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: At the Right Hand of Longstreet: Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer by G. Moxley Sorrel ISBN: 0803292678 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.37 |
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Title: May I Quote You, Stonewall Jackson: Observations and Utterances of the South's Great Generals by Randall J. Bedwell ISBN: 1888952369 Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Gray Cavalier: The Life and Wars of General William H. F. "Rooney" Lee by Mary Daughtry ISBN: 0306811731 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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