Front: IN MEMORY OF / THE NORTH CAROLINA SOLDIERS / WHO FOUGHT AND DIED / SO COURAGEOUSLY / AND THE CIVILIANS WHO / SUFFERED GRIEVOUSLY / DURING THE / BATTLE OF BENTONVILLE, / MARCH 19-21, 1865. / ERECTED BY THE HARPER HOUSE-BENTONVILLE CHAPTER / UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY / 1992
HONOR
Rear: SLEEP, SOLDIER, SLEEP, IN THY ROUGH EARTHEN TOMB. /
WHILE ABOVE THEE THE WINTER WINDS RAVE. /
IN SUMMER THE BIRDS WILL THY REQUIEM SING, /
AND WILLOWS WEEP OVER THY GRAVE. / NO COFFIN ENCLOSED HIS MANGLED REMAINS, / NO SHROUD SAVE HIS UNIFORM OLD; /
BUT HIS NAME IS ENTWINED IN THE LAURELS OF FAME /
AND ON MEMORY'S PAGES ENROLLED.
11 July 2014 | Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina