The NC Military Institute -- 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 1st NC Volunteers, a until made up of former cadets from the NC Military Institute, who fought as part of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia during the US Civil War.

The monument reads as follows:

"1861 [Confederate battle flag] 1865
CSA

NORTH CAROLINA MILITARY INSTITUTE

Charlotte remembers with honor the gallant lads of the N.C. Military Institute, which once stood near here. After Fort Sumter, the ladies of Charlotte presented the cadets with the secession flag they had made, and it flew over the school prior to NC’s secession, May 20, 1861. Daniel Harvey Hill, Superintendent, became Colonel of the 1st NC Volunteers, leading that unit and the cadets in the first Confederate victory of the war, Bethel VA, June 10, 1861. The boys follow alongside the Charlotte Grays who were under Captain Edward A. Ross of Charlotte, an 18-year-old former cadet. He was killed Gettysburg July 1st, 1863 while Major of the 11TH NC Infantry, and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery. D. H. Hill became one of the premier generals in the Confederacy. Many of the boys became officers in various NC regiments and many gave their lives for Dixie. School became a Confederate hospital during the war. After the war for Southern Independence it served as a military Academy again, and was later part of the Charlotte public schools as D. H. Hill school. The building stood until 1954.

DEO VINDICE

Erected by the Major Egbert A. Ross Camp 1423, Sons of Confederate Veterans

Charlotte, June 10, 1994"

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?: 06/10/1994 Who placed this monument?: Sons of Confederate Veterans Link that comprove that role: Not listed

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