Iredell County Confederate Memorial, Statesville
The monument presents a Confederate soldier, at parade rest, atop a tall tapered granite column. Two cannon rest in the grass, one flanking each side of the monument and facing outward from the courthouse.
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Front: TO THE SOLDIERS OF / IREDELL COUNTY / 1861. - 1865. / 1905
Right side: "THEY BORE THE FLAG OF A / NATION'S TRUST / AND FELL IN A CAUSE, / THOUGHT LOST, STILL JUST, / AND DIED FOR ME AND YOU
Left side: DEFENDERS OF / STATE SOVEREIGNTY
Rear: FROM BETHEL TO APPOMATOX, / THEIR COURAGE, PATIENCE, / FORTITUDE, ENDURANCE, AND /UNSELFISH DEVOTION TO / COUNTRY ARE UNPARALLELED / IN HISTORY.
May 10, 1906
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"Historic Iredell County Courthouse & Confederate Monument," Panoramio.com, (accessed May 23, 2012) Link
"Iredell County Board of Commissioners Regular Minutes March 14, 2006," Iredell County North Carolina Board of Commissioners, (accessed February 6, 2013) Link
"Iredell County Confederate Memorial," The Historical Marker Database, (accessed May 23, 2012) Link
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. "Iredell County," North Carolina Civil War Monuments, (accessed February 8, 2013) 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), 71, (accessed May 23, 2012) Link
United Daughters of the Confederacy, North Carolina Division. Minutes of the Third Annual Meeting of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, North Carolina Division Held in Henderson, N.C., October 11-12, 1899 (Raleigh, N.C.: Capital Printing Company, Printers and Binders, 1900), 63, (accessed September 12, 2012) Link
“Our Confederate Dead Memorial – Statesville, NC,” Waymarking, (accessed February 8, 2013) Link
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Granite and bronze
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Statesville Chapter
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According to the United Daughters of the Confederacy annual meeting minutes for 1906, the monument was unveiled with exercises on May 10, 1906.
According to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, twenty-eight soldiers who died during the war were buried in Statesville. In 2006, a Mr. Stan Clardy approached the Iredell County Commissioners with a request to place a re-dedication marker at the base of the monument as part of the celebration of its 100th anniversary in May. The planned wording would be "Centennial and Rededication of Monument - In memory of the Iredell County Confederate Soldiers, May 6, 2006, Deo Vindice." The cost would be covered by private donations and sales of adds and commemorative items. The board approved the request, 5 votes to 0.
The monument sits in front of the historic Iredell County Courthouse at Court Street and South Center Street in Statesville.
The monument sits in the lawn in front of the courthouse. It is flanked by two cannon facing away from the courthouse, and mature trees surround the site.
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