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Source:  Memorial Arch, Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh. Photo courtesy Donald Burgess Tilley Jr.

  • Monument Name

    Memorial Arch, Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh

  • Type

    Memorial Arch

  • Subjects

    Civil War

  • City

    Raleigh

  • County

    Wake

  • Description

    Memorial Arch in Oakwood Cemetery.
    Images: Front View | Back View

  • Inscription

    Right Plaque:
    ERECTED / IN MEMORY OF OUR / CONFEDERATE DEAD / BY THE / JOHNSTON PETTIGREW / CHAPTER / UNITED DAUGHTERS / OF THE / CONFEDERACY / 1910
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    Left Plaque:
    DEDICATED IN HONOR OT / MRS. A. W. HOFFMAN / 23 YEARS OF FAITHFUL SERVICE / AS DIVISION CHAIRMAN OF / CONFEDERATE CEMETERY / BY / JOHNSTON PETTIGREW / CHAPTER #95 / UNITED DAUGHTERS OF / THE CONFEDERACY / 1979
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  • Dedication Date

    May 10, 1910

  • Decade

    1910s

  • Geographic Coordinates

    35.792200 , -78.625890

  • Supporting Sources

      "North Carolina Civil War Monuments," North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, (accessed January 23, 2012) Link

      Folder 45 in the E. E. Moffitt Papers, #519, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, see scans 3-12 Link

      Folder 9 in the E. E. Moffitt Papers, #519, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, see scan 3 Link

      United Daughters of the Confederacy, North Carolina Division. Minutes of the Eleventh Annual Convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, North Carolina Division, Held at Greensboro, N.C., October 9th, 10th and 11th 1907, (Newton, NC: Enterprise Job Print., 1908), 58, (accessed May 24, 2012) Link

      United Daughters of the Confederacy, North Carolina Division. Minutes of the Tenth Annual Convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, North Carolina Division, Held at Durham, N.C., October 10th, 11th and 12th 1906, (Newton, NC: Enterprise Job Print, 1907), 14, 47, 65, (accessed May 23, 2012) Link

      Williams, Charlotte Bryan Grimes. History of the Wake County Ladies Memorial Association: Confederate Memorials in Capitol Square, Memorial Pavilion, the House of Memory and Confederate Cemetery, (Raleigh, NC: United Daughters of the Confederacy, Johnston Pettigrew Chapter No. 95, 1938), (accessed May 16, 2012) Link

  • Public Site

    Unknown

  • Sponsors

    United Daughters of the Confederacy, General James Johnston Pettigrew Chapter

  • Monument Dedication and Unveiling

    Dedicated on Confederate memorial day.

  • Death Space

    Yes

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