Caldwell County Confederate Monument, Lenoir (Lenoir, North Carolina)

Caldwell County Confederate Monument, Lenoir (Lenoir, North Carolina)

The granite monument consists of a base with an obelisk on top standing 35 ft. tall in total. The north and south sides of the base have inscriptions, one being from the poem "Bivouac Of The Dead" and the other listing the regiments from Caldwell County. On June 3, 1910, the dedication ceremony began at 10am with a short parade that featured "grizzled heroes of the sixties" marching on foot and commanded by their own officers. Its opening was marked by the appearance of Judge Walter Clark, who at age 14 became the youngest Major in the Confederate Army. During the era of monument building in the early decades of the 20th century Clark became one of the most sought out monument dedication orators. He delivered six such speeches, three of which have survived. He was considered the states preeminent Civil War historian.

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Caldwell County Confederate Monument, Lenoir

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Obelisk

Zebulon Baird Vance Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy

Caldwell County

White Mt. Airey Granite

Front, north face: "NOR SHALL YOU / GLORY BE FORGOT / WHERE FAME / HER RECORD KEEPS / OR HONOR POINTS / THE HALLOWED SPOT / WHERE VALOR / PROUDLY SLEEPS." Front, base: IN HONOR OF / THE MEN WHO WORE THE GRAY. Rear, south: FROM CALDWELL COUNTY. / CO. A 22ND. N.C. REGT. - INFTY. / CO. F 20TH. N.C. REGT. - INFTY. / CO. I 26TH. N.C. REGT. - INFTY. / CO. E 58TH. N.C. REGT. - INFTY. / CO. H 53TH. N.C. REGT. - INFTY. / AND MANY OF HER SONS / IN OTHER COMMANDS. Rear base: ERECTED BY / THE VANCE CHAPTER OF THE / UNITED DAUGHTES OF THE CONFEDERACY, / OF CALDWELL COUNTY N.C. / MAY 1910.

$2,500

North Carolina

Confederate

Lenoir