William Frederic Pendleton (March 25, 1845 – November 5, 1927) was the first Executive Bishop of the General Church of the New Jerusalem, in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania.
[1][2][3] Born in Savannah, Georgia, Pendleton was the son of Major (C.S.A.)
Philip Coleman Pendleton and Catherine Sarah Melissa Tebeau.
Pendleton served with the 50th Georgia Volunteers, Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
North Anna River, near Hanover Court House, about May 20, 1864.
Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864, in four general engagements during the day, wounded in the last.
At the end of the war, he was 20 and a Captain before returning to his home in Valdosta, Georgia.
[6] He graduated from Savannah Medical College and was awarded an MD degree in 1870.