William N. Pendleton (1809–1883), American teacher, Episcopal priest, and soldier
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William W. Pendleton, former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
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William Frederic Pendleton (1845–1927), first Executive Bishop of the General Church of the New Jerusalem
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Unlike such Confederate officers as Jubal Early and William Pendleton, Alexander eschewed the bitter Lost Cause theories of why the South was doomed to fail, given the overwhelming superiority of the North.