Legacy
Pender is buried in Calvary Churchyard in 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.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
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