CONFEDERATE MONUMENT-GOLDSBORO,NC
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N 35° 22.511 W 077° 59.719
18S E 227884 N 3918770
MASS GRAVE OF 800 UNION AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS.
Waymark Code: WMVFE1
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 04/11/2017
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ALTHOUGH CALLED A CONFEDERATE MONUMENT, THERE ARE UNION SOLDIERS IN THIS MASS GRAVE ALSO. MADE OF GRANITE AND BUILT AT A COST OF $992. INSCRIPTION: ON FAME'S ETERNAL CAMPING GROUND,THEIR SILENT TENTS ARE SPREAD IN GLORY GUARDS THE SOLEMN ROUND.THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD. FROM A POEM BY THEODORE O'HARA FROM THE MEXICAN WAR BUT USED ON MANY MONUMENTS FROM THE CIVIL WAR. REVERSE SIDE INSCRIPTION: A GENEROUS FOE CONTRIBUTED TO THE ERECTION OF THIS MEMORIAL. LOCATED IN CENTER OF WILLOWDALE CEMETERY GOLDSBORO,NC.
Date Installed or Dedicated: 05/14/1883
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: LADIES MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION OF THE YOUNG LADIES OF WAYNE FEMALE COLLEGE
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Confederate
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