Alleghany County's Confederate soldiers were honored in loving tribute by the Alleghany Chapter, U.D.C., with words praising their fight for liberty, home, and those they loved, declaring that their names are borne on honor's shield and their record is with God. The county was said to have furnished more soldiers to the Confederate cause than it had voters during 1861-1865, and another inscription held that fate denied them victory but crowned them with glorious immortality.