Carteret County Confederate Dead, Beaufort
A bronze Confederate soldier stands atop a granite pedestal. The soldier stands at parade rest, holding his rifle which rests on the ground. The Confederate flag is shown in bas-relief on the pedestal, above the inscription.
Pedestal, top: CSA
Pedestal, center:
TO THE MEMORY OF THE / CONFEDERATE DEAD / OF CARTERET COUNTY /
1861-1865 / ERECTED BY / THE DAUGHTERS OF / CONFEDERACY /
FORT MACON CHAPTER / BEAUFORT, N.C. 1926 / NOT EVEN TIME CAN DESTROY HEROISM
Pedestal, bottom: OUR CONFEDERATE HEROES
Carteret County
May 10, 1926
34.719340 , -76.662800
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Yes
Bronze, granite
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Fort Macon Chapter; Morehead City Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy; and Mr. F. S. Dickinson, a businessman from Rutherford, N.J.
$3,000
After the invocation Mrs. Ida Eaton of Morehead City made a recitation. Judge H.A. Grady of Clinton was orator for the event. He said that “Confederate soldiers were no longer referred to as rebels and traitors to their country,” and that “sectionalism had passed away…. Lee, Grant and others leaders on both sides should be regarded as great Americans.” The unveiling was by children, Rosa Lee Chadwick and David Poole. After the ceremony some in the crowd went to a nearby cemetery to decorate Confederate graves.
In contrast to the destruction visited on other major cities and ports in the south during the Civil War, Beaufort was left untouched and was occupied by Union forces beginning in April 1862.
The Beaufort memorial was the last in North Carolina of what had become the standard form for Confederate Monuments, that of a base and shaft topped with a statue. The demise of this type memorial coincided with aging and death of the remaining Confederate veterans. There were but 10 in attendance at this dedication.
The statue is located on the south lawn of the County Courthouse at 300 Courthouse Square, Beaufort, NC and faces outward toward Broad Street. An Order of the Purple Heart memorial and the Carteret County Veterans Memorial stand on the lawn to the left of the front entrance to the Carteret County Courthouse.
The statue stands on the lawn surrounded by plantings, hedges, and mature trees.
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