Bertie County Confederate Monument, Windsor
The monument depicts a confederate soldier at parade rest, with his gun resting on the ground. The statue rests on a tall column of smooth granite atop a square base of smooth granite. Two crossed cannon are shown in bas-relief on the column's cap beneath the statue. The entire column and its immediate base rest on a two tier base of rough cut granite.
Monument, front: WE RESPONDED TO / OUR COUNTRY'S / CALL / "WE FOUGHT AN / HONEST FIGHT. / WE KEPT THE / SOUTHRON'S FAITH. / WE FELL AT THE / POST OF DUTY. / WE DIED FOR THE / LAND WE LOVED." / ERECTED BY / THE CONFEDERATE / VETERANS / ASSOCIATION / OF BERTIE. 1896.
Base, front: OUR CONFEDERATE / DEAD / 1861-1865
Confederate Veterans Association of Bertie
1898
35.997230 , -76.945330
"Bertie County Confederate Monument, Windsor, North Carolina," Panoramio, (accessed August 29, 2012) Link
Emerson, B. A. C. (Mrs.). Historic Southern Monuments: Representative Memorials of the Heroic Dead of the Southern Confederacy, (New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1911), (accessed January 29, 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), 37, (accessed August 29, 2012) Link
United States Department of the Interior National Park Service. "National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form -Windsor Historical District" ([1991]), (accessed January 28, 2012) Link
“Bertie County Confederate Memorial,” Markeroni.com, (accessed January 28, 2013) Link
Yes
Fairfield granite
$2,000
The monument was unveiled on August 13, 1896, with a reported four thousand people attending. The welcome was given by General William Bate of Tennessee. Several generations of his forebears lived in Bertie County, and a public reception was given on the evening of the dedication to honor him. Two Bertie County survivors of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg were also on the speaker's stand at the dedication.
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