From the Match 13, 2013, Wilmington (NC) Star-News "Back Then."
MARCH 1, 1943: The 72nd Liberty Ship slid down the ways at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company. It was the SS William D. Pender, named after the Confederate general, one of the youngest and most promising officers of the South who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
He was born at Pender's Crossroads in Edgecombe County, North Carolina and graduated the USMA in 1854. Before the war, he served with the U.S. 2nd Artillery and 1st Dragoons in Washington Territory and in Indian Wars.
Pender County, North Carolina was named for him in 1875.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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