Ario Pardee , Jr . Ario Pardee , Jr . ( October 28 , 1839 – March 16 , 1901 ) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War . He rose to fame during the Battle of Gettysburg , where he led the defense of a portion of Culp ' s Hill on July 3 , 1863 . A monument on the Gettysburg Battlefield commemorates the spot as " Pardee Field . " Early life . Ario ( Ariovistus ) Pardee , Jr . was the eldest child of Ariovistus Pardee , a capitalist who founded Hazleton , Pennsylvania , and Elizabeth Jacobs . He was born in Hazleton on October 28 , 1839 . In 1847 , his mother died in childbirth . The following year , his father married Anna Maria Robison , the family ' s governess . Pardee trained as a civil engineer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute . After graduating in 1858 , he became involved in running his father ’ s anthracite coal mines . By the outbreak of the war , he was married to Mary Allison . Their only child was stillborn during the Civil War . Ario Pardee Jr . has no direct descendants . Civil War in the East . Pardee joined the 28th Pennsylvania Infantry on June 28 , 1861 . It was encamped at Camp Coleman in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania in July while completing organization . After serving as captain of Company A , organized by his father , he was named major on November 1 of that year . ( Col John W . Geary had been made a brigadier general , and Pardee was among those promoted in the follow - up to that promotion . ) Pardee served under Geary in the Shenandoah Valley , when MG Nathaniel Banks was bested by Stonewall Jackson . Pardee criticized Geary ' s actions in that campaign , especially his abandoning Thoroughfare Gap in the face of a Confederate advance . Pardee thought Geary overestimated dangers confronting him . While serving under MG John Pope in Virginia , Pardee missed the Battle of Cedar Mountain ; and Banks ' command was not engaged at the Second Battle of Bull Run , being detailed to guard the rear of Pope ' s army . It only did some skirmishing after the battle had ended . At the rank of major , Pardee led the regiment at the Battle of Antietam on September 17 , 1862 , serving in the brigade of Lt . Col . Hector Tyndale in Second Division of the XII Corps . Ario escaped uninjured , despite having a horse shot out from under him . BG George S . Greene , the division commander , commended Pardee for his conduct at Antietam . Pardee even took command of the brigade briefly , because Tyndale had been wounded . Shortly thereafter , on October 9 of that year , some companies of the 28th became part of the new 147th Pennsylvania Infantry , together with three newly recruited companies . Pardee was named lieutenant colonel and commander of the regiment . Pardee next saw combat in the Battle of Chancellorsville , where he led the regiment in the brigade of Col . Charles Candy in the Second Division of BG John White Geary , his former regimental commander . He retained command at the Battle of Gettysburg , during which he was engaged in the fighting on Culp ' s Hill on July 2 , and July 3 , 1863 . A field on Culp ’ s Hill has been named for him , as a sign painted on a stone shows . The 147th Pennsylvania faced that field during the fighting on July 3 , as XII Corps tried to win back ground lost to the Confederate troops of Lt . Gen . Richard S . Ewell on the day before . ( Geary had wandered off with two brigades , instead of going to reinforce the army ' s endangered left flank . ) Their foes resumed the previous day ' s efforts to carry Culp ’ s Hill by attacking up hill . Pardee was told to maintain a steady volume of fire on the Confederates . This aided repulse of the last attack of BG George H . Steuart ' s brigade across the field . The volume of fire , however , was such that ammunition became scarce . By 11 : 00 AM the Confederate attacks ended . The report of Col Charles Candy that Pardee ' s regiment advanced to the wall on the opposite side of the contested field is not supported by other accounts . Civil War in the West . Pardee went west with the rest of XII Corps and XI Corps , which had been sent to the relief of the Army of the Cumberland , besieged in Chattanooga , Tennessee by the Confederate Army of Tennessee . The regiment participated in the Battle of Wauhatchie , the Battle of Lookout Mountain and the Battle of Ringgold Gap while under the overall command of Maj . Gen . Joseph Hooker . Pardee , ordinarily a critic of Geary , praised his division commander ' s conduct at Wauhatchie . Pardee was promoted to the rank of colonel on March 19 , 1864 . He then led the regiment in Col Candy ' s brigade in Brig . Gen . John W . Geary ’ s second division XX Corps in the Army of the Cumberland . This corps had been created out of XI Corps , XII Corps and some garrison troops . Hooker commanded the corps at the beginning of Maj . Gen . William T . Sherman ’ s Atlanta Campaign . At the Battle of Peachtree Creek , Pardee ' s regiment held its ground against attacking Confederate forces while the regiments either side of it retreated . The 147th suffered heavy losses , and Pardee complained that his right flank was thrown into disorder by routed troops . The battle also resulted in the death of his cousin , who was in the same infantry , Isaiah Platt . After Colonel Candy was mustered out of the service , Pardee usually led the first brigade of Geary ’ s Division in the later stages of the Atlanta Campaign , the March to the Sea and the Carolinas Campaign . During that latter campaign , XX Corps became part of Maj . Gen . Henry Warner Slocum ’ s Army of Georgia . Pardee ' s last major battle as a brigade commander was the Battle of Bentonville in North Carolina . Pardee received promotion to the brevet rank of brigadier general on January 12 , 1865 , for the Battle of Peachtree Creek . He was discharged from the service on June 13 of that year . Postbellum activities . After the Civil War , Pardee returned to Pennsylvania . There he went back into the coal business as a partner with his father and his brother Calvin . Ario Jr . was not heavily involved in the management of these enterprises . That fell to his father and then to brothers Calvin and Frank . Colonel Pardee ' s health seems to have been undermined by war service , which would explain his passive role . He also had interests in railroads and belonged to the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States . Mary Pardee predeceased her husband , and he grew testy in old age . Ario Pardee Jr . died at Wyncote , Pennsylvania , on March 16 , 1901 . He was buried in the churchyard of St . Paul ’ s Episcopal Church in Elkins Park , Pennsylvania .