UNDER THE CONFEDERACY
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and buoying the river. He commanded the
steamer Nasliz'illc, October, 1861, to Febru-
ary, 1862. It was the intention of Mason
and Slidell, the Confederate commissioners,
to take passage on the Nashville, and for this
purpose Pegram was to run the blockade
from Charleston ; but they feared to take the
chances, and while he ran the blockade suc-
cessfully in October, 1861, they were cap-
tured on board the British mail steamer
Trent. Pegram after capturing the Harvey
Birch in the English Channel, landed his
prisoners in Southampton and was held in
port by the United States steamer Tuscarora
until February, when he effected his escape
and made harbor at Beaufort, North Caro-
lina. He was detailed to superintend the
armament of the iron-clad steamer Rich-
mond, which he took to Drewry's Bluff,
when he was transferred to the new iron-
clad Virginia, the best vessel in the Confed-
erate fleet. In 1864 funds were raised by
Virginia to purchase and equip in England,
a naval force to be called the Virginia Vol-
unteer Navy, to be commanded by Capt.
Pegram. He went to England for the pur-
pose, and had one vessel in readiness when
Lee surrendered. He was married (first) to
Lucy Binns Cargill, of Sussex county, who
was the mother of his seven children ; and
(^secondly) to Sarah Leigh, of Norfolk. His
eldest son, John Cargill Pegram, was killed
ill battle before Petersburg, June 16, 1864,
while a member of the staff of Gen. l^.lat-
thew W. Ransom, of North Carolina, who
commanded the Fourth brigade in Gen.
P'Ushrod R. Johnson's division. Gen. R. H.
/vnderson's corps. Capt. Pegram died in
Norfolk, Virginia, October 24, 1894.
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Pendleton, Alexander Swift, who nad at-
tained the rank of adjutant-general in the
Confederate army, serving as such at the
tnue of his death in the Second Corps in the
Army of Northern Virginia, was born in
Fairfax county, Virginia, September 28.
1840, at what is now the Episcopal High
School, of which his father, the Rev. Dr.
William N. Pendleton, was then the rector;
his father was afterwards chief of artillery
of the Army of Northern Virginia ; his
mother was Anzolette Elizabeth (Page)
Pendleton, daughter of Francis Page, Esq.,
of Hanover county, Virginia. Alexander S.
Pendleton received his early education under
his father's tuition, at thirteen years of age
entered Washington College, Lexington, Vir-
ginia, and in his senior year, before he was
sixteen years old, was tutor in mathematics,
and in 1857, before he was seventeen, was
graduated at the head of his class, receiving
the first honor of the college, and being ap-
pointed to deliver the "Cincinnati Oration" ;
entered the University of Virginia, in 1859,
and in one year was graduated in half of
the academic classes, intending to apply for
the master's degree the following year; this
was prevented by his entering the Confed-
erate army, in which he was offered a sec-
ond lieutenantcy ; he was on the stalif of
Col. Thomas J. Jackson, and his successors:
was promoted for conspicuous gallantry at
Falling Waters and at Manassas, and was
again and again recommended for promo-
tion ; after the seven days' fight around
Richmond, he was made a captain and was
also promoted major in the same year ; he
was with Gen. Jackson at Chancellorsville
when the latter was shot ; when Gen. Ewell
succeeded Gen. Jackson, he was promoted
