Confederate Monument (1986), Greensboro
This rectangular stone monument holds a bronze plaque listing the military regiments from Greensboro and Guilford County that served in the Civil War. The marker sits on S. Davie Street and E. McGee St. in Greensboro, North Carolina.
TO THE MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF GREENSBOROUGH AND GUILFORD COUNTY, / WHO FOUGHT FOR NORTH CAROLINA AND THE CONFEDERACY / IN THE WAR FOR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE. / 1861-1865 / THESE WHILE IN THE PRIME OF LIFE, / FOUGHT, BLED AND DIED; / WALKING IN THE STEPS OF FATHER / ABRAHAM (GEN. 14:13-14) / IN BEHALF OF A LOST CAUSE. / WHILE SOME OF THESE IN OUR CHURCH- / YARDS SLEEP, / OTHERS FILL AN UNKNOWN GRAVE; / WHETHER UNKNOWN OF KNOWN TO FAME / THEIR CAUSE AND COUNTRY STILL THE / SAME. / THEY DIED AND WORE THE GRAY. / (BY JOHN A. SLOAN) / COMMANDER OF THE GUILFORD GRAYS / THE MEN OF GUILFORD / INFANTRY / 1. CO. E – 2 REG. N.C. “THE GUILFORD GUARDS” / 2. CO. M – 21 REG. N.C. “THE GUILFORD DIXIE BOYS” / 3. CO. E – 22 REG. N.C. “THE GUILFORD MINUTE MEN” / 4. CO. B – 27 REG. N.C. “THE GUILFORD GRAYS” / 5. CO. B – 45 REG. N.C. “CAPT. CHARLES E. SHOBERS CO.” / 6. CO. C – 45 REG. N.C. “THE GUILFORD LIGHT INFANTRY” / 7. CO. A – 53 REG. N.C. “CAPT. A.P. McDANIEL’S CO.” / 8. CO. D – 53 REG. N.C. “CAPT. DAVID SCOTT, JR’S CO.” / 9. CO. F – 54 REG. N.C. “THE STONEWALL BOYS” / CAVALRY / 10. CO. F – 19 REG. – 2 N.C. CAV. “THE GUILFORD CAVALRY” / 11. CO. I – 63 REG. – 5 N.C. CAV. “CAPT. JOHN E. WHARTON’S PARTISAN RANGERS” / 12. CO. K – 63 REG. – 5 N.C. CAV. “CAPT. NAT P. RANKIN’S PARTISAN RANGERS” / 13. CO. H – 16 BATTALION N.C. CAV. “CAPT. THOMAS R. DUVAL’S CO.” / RESERVES / 14. CO. A – 72 REG. – 3 N.C. JUNIOR RESERVES “CAPT. JOHN W. PITTS CO.” / 15. CO. B – 77 REG. – 7 N.C. SENIOR RESERVES “CAPT. JACOB BOON’S CO.” / 16. CO. C – 77 REG. – 7 N.C. SENIOR RESERVES “CAPT. W.B. JOHNSTON’S CO.” / HOME GUARD / 17. 4 REG. N.C. HOME GUARD “COL. JAMES R. COLE’S REG.” / ‘LEST WE FORGET’
On a smaller plaque below: ERECTED MAY 10, 1986 / BY / THE COL. JOHN SLOAN CAMP, 1290 / SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS
May 10, 1986
36.067930 , -79.790530
Yes
Granite, Bronze
Sons of Confederate Veterans.
$9000
“Men of Greensboro and Guilford County”
The monument faces northeast just off of South Davie St.
A monument placed a year earlier to the Army of Tennessee stands next to it. They sit in Hamburger square.
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