The Ranaleburg Riflemen -- Confederate Veteran Cemetery, Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte NC - Political Revolutions on Waymarking.com

This modern unreconstructed Neo-Confederate monument placed by the Sons of Confederate Veterans stands inside the fenced Confederate Cemetery in Elmwood Cemetery at Charlotte NC. It is dedicated to the Confederate soldiers of the 13th Regiment North Carolina Troops, Company B, AKA the Ranaleburg Riflemen, who fought as part of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia during the US Civil War.

The monument reads as follows:

"CSA
1861 [Confederate battle flag] 1865

RANALEBURG RIFLEMEN
13th Regiment North Carolina Troops, Company B

In April 1861 infantry company knows as the Ranaleburg Riflemen was enlisted at run Albert in southern Mecklenburg County with Colonel Albert A. Erwinn commanding. In May of 1861 it was designated Company B of the 3d NC Volunteers, Colonel W. Dorsey Pender commanding. In November 1861, the 3rd Volunteers were redesignated the 13th Regiment NC Troops under command of Colonel Alfred M. Scales. In June 1862 became part of General Samuel Garland’s Brigade, Daniel Harvey Hill’s Division. It later became part of Dorsey Pender’s Brigade comprised of the 13th, 16th, 22nd, 34th, and 38th NC Troops, a. P. Hill’s Division, Stonewall Jackson’s Corps, and served in the campaigns of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Fought savagely at South Mountain Maryland September 14, 1862, where General Garland was killed and the 13th’s colorbearer sacrificed himself for his regiment. These gallant sons of North Carolina brought honor to the Tar Heel state and the Confederate States time and again - the bloody Charge at Malvern Hill, Sharpsburg, Stonewall Jackson’s flank attack at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, The Wilderness, and Appomattox. These Mecklenburg patriots contributed their full measure to North Carolina’s wartime legacy.

First at Bethel, farthest to the front at Gettysburg and Chickamauga, last at Appomattox

DEO VINDICE

Erected to the sacred memory of the Confederate soldiers who rest here and all across our nation by the friends and members of the 13th North Carolina Troops and the Major Egbert A. Ross Camp 1423, Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Charlotte, Oct 2000.

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[Regimental Flag of the 13th NC Troops]

General A. P. Hill, one of Virginia’s greatest warriors, was asked what troops he preferred command. He replied without hesitation, “unquestionably North Carolinians - not that they are braver where all are brave but brave as the bravest. They are most obedient command.”

From Five Points to the Record of NC In the Great War of 1861-65"

Name of the revolution that the waymark is related to: US Civil War Adress of the monument: Elmwood Cemetery Charlotte, NC What was the role of this site in revolution?: Opened in 1870 as a burial ground for wounded Confederate soldiers who had died at state hospitals run by the Confederate State governments, and had been buried on hospital grounds. These dead men were exhumed and reburied here in 1870. A tall obelisk memorial was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1887, and thereafter this has become a place for CSA memorials. When was this memorial placed?: 10/01/2000 Who placed this monument?: Sons of Confederate Veterans Link that comprove that role: Not listed

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