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The Tyrrell County Confederate Monument, erected in A.D. 1902 by the Tyrrell Monument Association, honored the patriotic sons of Tyrrell County who fell in the service of the Confederate States and paid tribute to comrades who served the Confederate cause to the end. It invoked Gen. Robert E. Lee and General James Johnston Pettigrew, whose North Carolinians went farthest at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and dated the war from Fort Sumter, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861, to Appomattox, C.H., Virginia, on April 9, 1865. It named officers from Company A, 32nd North Carolina Troops and other Tyrrell County men in Confederate service, including officers of the 32nd North Carolina Troops drawn from Company A. It also praised the noble women of Tyrrell County for their devotion and sacrifice, expressed appreciation for faithful slaves, and dedicated a tablet to Mary Alexander Beasley, born in Tyrrell County in A.D. 1811 and died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1892, who spent the four years of the war nursing soldiers who called her “Mother Beasley.”
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