North Carolina Monument

North Carolina soldiers fought and died courageously, and civilians suffered grievously during the Battle of Bentonville, March 19-21, 1865. A verse honors the fallen soldier resting in a rough earthen tomb, with winter winds above him, birds singing his requiem in summer, and willows weeping over his grave; though no coffin enclosed his mangled remains and no shroud covered him except his old uniform, his name is entwined in the laurels of fame and enrolled on memory’s pages.

North Carolina · United States