On April 10, 1905, some 3,000 spectators and North Carolina Civil War veterans dedicated the only battlefield monument now part of Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. Governor Andrew Jackson Montague of Virginia and Governor Robert Glenn of North Carolina attended, along with aging North Carolina veterans who had participated in the Battle of Appomattox Court House 40 years earlier, including General William P. Roberts, Captain Wilson T. Jenkins, and Lieutenant E.J. Holt. Authorized by the North Carolina General Assembly, it was designed, quarried, and sculpted by North Carolinians and placed on land acquired by the state. It stands where General William Cox's North Carolina Brigade reportedly fired the last organized volley from Confederate infantry at the close of the Battle of Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Several hours later, General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the home of village resident Wilmer McLean. It honors North Carolinians who served with General Lee's army during the Appomattox Campaign. Its inscription reads, "First at Big Bethel; Farthest to the front at Gettysburg and Chickamauga, and last at Appomattox." Other stone markers placed by North Carolina mark the site of the last Union battery taken by General Roberts' Cavalry Brigade and the location of the last skirmish by men of the 4th and 14th North Carolina Infantry. Together these memorials represent the high tide of Confederate military advances at Appomattox Court House and the symbolic point at which the Southern cause ended.