The Mecklenburg Guards -- Confederate Veteran Cemetery, Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte NC
N 35° 14.127 W 080° 50.792
17S E 513964 N 3899164
This memorial at the Confederate Cemetery inside Elmwood Cemetery at Charlotte NC honors the men of The Mecklenburg Guards
Waymark Code: WMX3H8
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 11/21/2017
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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 Mecklenburg Guards, 49th Regiment North Carolina Troops, Company F, 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
MECKLENBURG GUARDS
49th Regiment North Carolina Troops, Company F
The spring of 1862 an infantry company known as the Mecklenburg guards was enlisted in Charlotte with Captain James T. Davis commanding. In April it was designated company F of the 40th Regiment North Carolina troops, under command of Colonel Stephen D. Ramseur, and fought the 7 days campaign outside Richmond and the battle of Sharpsburg MD in the summer of ‘62. In November, 1862 Colonel Leroy M. McAfee became commanding officer and the Regiment soon became part of General Matt Ransom’s brigade prized of the 24th, 25th, 30th, 49th, and 56th Regiments North Carolina troops. Matt ransom’s brigade was part of his brother Robert Ransom’s division and served in eastern NC most of 1863 in early 1864 before returning to Virginia. Ransom’s brigade became part of Bushrod Johnson’s Division, Richard Anderson’s Corps, Robert E Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. The 49th fought savagely at the bloodied Battle of the crater, Petersburg Virginia, July 30, 1864. These gallant Tar Heels brought honor to the old North State and the Confederate states time and again - at Malvern Hill, Sharpsburg MD, Plymouth NC, Drewry’s Bluff VA, The Crater, Fort Stedman, and Five Forks VA. these warrior patriots contributed their full share 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 49th North Carolina Troops (reactivated) and the Major Egbert A. Ross Camp 1423, Sons of Confederate Veterans
Charlotte, March 2001
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[Regimental Flag of the 49th NC Troops]
“Suffering, they bore. Duty, they performed, and death they faced and met -- if thy sons in the coming time shall learn the lesson of heroism their lives inspired in their deeds declared, then not one drop of blood was shed in vain.”
First Lieutenant Thomas R. Roulhac
49th NC Regimental History
from Clark’s NC Regiments & Battalions Volume III"
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?: 03/01/2001
Who placed this monument?: Sons of Confederate Veterans
Link that comprove that role: Not listed
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