Confederate Monument, Oakwood Cemetary, Raleigh
This monument is a tall stone obelisk atop a thicker ornately-carved base.
Oakwood Cemetery
1870
35.784930 , -78.627120
"Confederate Memorial, Oakwood Cemetery," Flickr, (accessed June 25, 2012) Link
"North Carolina Civil War Monuments," North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, (accessed January 23, 2012) Link
"State of North Carolina Confederate Monument," Historic Oakwood Cemetery and Mausoleum, (accessed February 15, 2012) Link
Folder 2a in Alfred M. Waddell Papers, #743, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, see scans 57-59 Link
Moore, John W. Address Delivered at Oakwood Cemetery, May 10th, 1881, by Request of the Ladies' Memorial Association of North Carolina, (Raleigh, NC: Edwards, Broughton & Co, Printers and Binders, 1881), (accessed May 15, 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
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Granite
Ladies Memorial Association
Matt Ransom gave an address at the 1870 dedication.
The monument is located in the middle of the Confederate section of the Historic Oakwood Cemetery. It is surrounded by smaller graves.
Yes
The site continues to serve as a site for Confederate Memorial Services each Memorial Day.
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