Franklin County Confederate Monument, Louisburg, North Carolina
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showbizkid
N 36° 07.363 W 078° 17.650
17S E 743519 N 4000951
The Franklin County Confederate Monument is located at Oakwood Cemetery. (Relocated in 2020.)
Waymark Code: WME3H
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 06/02/2006
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This is a monument in the standard style with a confederate soldier statue standing on an inscribed base. The monument, however, has some of the more interesting and poetic phrasing in its inscriptions that I've seen. This may have been the influence of scholars at Louisburg College. All four sides of the monument are inscribed.
The front inscription reads:
DEO VINDICE.WHEN CAN THEIR GLORY FADE? O THE WILD CHARGE THEY MADE ALL THE WORLD WONDERED.
1861-1865
TO OUR CONFEDERATE DEAD
The other inscriptions are as follows:
IN MEMORY OF FRANKLIN'S CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS THAT THEIR HEROIC DEEDS, SUBLIME SACRIFICE AND UNDYING DEVOTION TO DUTY AND COUNTRY MAY NEVER BE FORGOTTON.
THEY GAVE THEIR LIVES AND FORTUNES FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY AND STATE SOVEREIGNTY IN OBEDIENCE TO THE TEACHINGS OF THE FATHERS, WHO FRAMED THE CONSTITUTION AND ESTABLISHED THE UNION OF THESE STATES.
AT APPOMATTOX GOD SAID TO THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER "ABOUT FACE". IN OBEDIENCE TO THE CELESTIAL ORDER THERE WAS A CHANGE OF FRONT, AND THE GRAY LINE FACED THE FUTURE UNASHAMED AND UNAFRAID.