Pender was posted near the Lutheran Seminary. During the en echelon attack that started with James Longstreet's assault on the right, from the Round Tops through the Peach Orchard, Pender's division was to continue in the attack sequence near Cemetery Hill, to the left of Maj. Gen. Richard H. Anderson's attack on Cemetery Ridge. Pender was wounded in the thigh by a shell fragment fired from Cemetery Hill, and turned command over to Brig. Gen. James H. Lane. His division's momentum was broken by the change in command and no effective assault was completed. Pender was evacuated to Staunton, Virginia, where an artery in his leg ruptured on July 18. Surgeons amputated his leg in an attempt to save him, but he died a few hours later. His superiors wrote in their official reports of the Gettysburg Campaign about Pender's death: Legacy He is buried in the graveyard at Calvary Episcopal Church, Tarboro, North Carolina. He is memorialized in the name of Pender County, North Carolina, founded in 1875. He is the posthumous author of The General to his Lady: The Civil War letters of William Dorsey Pender to Fanny Pender, published in 1965. During World War II, the United States Navy commissioned a Liberty Ship, the SS William D. Pender, in honor of the fallen general. See also List of American Civil War generals (Confederate) Notes References Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. . Longacre, Edward G. General William Dorsey Pender: A Military Biography. Da Capo Press, 2001. . Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts On File, 1988. . Tagg, Larry. The Generals of Gettysburg. Campbell, CA: Savas Publishing, 1998. . U.S. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901. Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. . Wills, Brian Steel, Confederate General William Dorsey Pender. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013. External links Pender's papers at the Southern Historical Collection 1834 births 1863 deaths People from Edgecombe County, North Carolina United States Army officers Confederate States Army major generals People of North Carolina in the American Civil War United States Military Academy alumni Confederate States of America military personnel killed in the