List of Confederate monuments and memorials in North Carolina

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This is a list of Confederate monuments and memorials in North Carolina that were established as public displays and symbols of the Confederate States of America (CSA), Confederate leaders, or Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War. Part of the commemoration of the American Civil War, these symbols include monuments and statues, flags, holidays and other observances, and the names of schools, roads, parks, bridges, counties, cities, lakes, dams, military bases, and other public works. [note 1]

This list does not include items which are largely historic in nature such as historic markers or battlefield parks if they were not established to honor the Confederacy. Nor does it include figures connected with the origins of the Civil War or white supremacy, but not with the Confederacy.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there are at least 140 public spaces with Confederate monuments in North Carolina. [1]

Governor Roy Cooper "has called for the removal of monuments honoring Confederate soldiers and generals", including the Chapel Hill Silent Sam statue. He has called for the repeal of a 2015 law requiring legislative approval to remove Confederate monuments. [2]

State capitol

State Confederate Monument to the west of the state capitol Raleigh, NC Confederete Monument.JPG
State Confederate Monument to the west of the state capitol

Monuments

Courthouse monuments

Zebulon Baird Vance Monument in Asheville, North Carolina Vance Monument - Asheville, NC.jpg
Zebulon Baird Vance Monument in Asheville, North Carolina
Confederate Soldiers Monument at Old Cabarrus County Courthouse, Concord, North Carolina Old Courthouse Concord 1.jpg
Confederate Soldiers Monument at Old Cabarrus County Courthouse, Concord, North Carolina
Monument at Rutherford County Courthouse Rutherford County Courthouse, Rutherfordton, North Carolina (2019).jpg
Monument at Rutherford County Courthouse

Other public monuments

Joseph E. Johnston, Bentonville Joseph E. Johnston monument Bentonville.jpg
Joseph E. Johnston, Bentonville
Confederate Soldiers Monument (1868) in Fayetteville Confederate Soldiers Monument (1868), Fayetteville, North Carolina.jpg
Confederate Soldiers Monument (1868) in Fayetteville
Fort Fisher Confederate Monument, Kure Beach Fort Fisher Memorial-27527.jpg
Fort Fisher Confederate Monument, Kure Beach
Lenoir, North Carolina Lenoir CSA Memorial-27527.jpg
Lenoir, North Carolina
Lexington, North Carolina (ca. 1920) Confederate Monument, Lexington, North Carolina (ca. 1920).jpg
Lexington, North Carolina (ca. 1920)
New Bern, North Carolina Confederate Monument - New Bern, North Carolina.jpg
New Bern, North Carolina
Henry Lawson Wyatt in Raleigh, North Carolina Henry Lawson Wyatt by Gutzon Borglum - DSC05862.JPG
Henry Lawson Wyatt in Raleigh, North Carolina
Confederate graves and monument, Historic Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh Confederate graves and monument, Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, North Carolina.jpg
Confederate graves and monument, Historic Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh
Gloria Victis, Salisbury Confederate Memorial - cropped.jpg
Gloria Victis , Salisbury

Private monuments

Buildings

Inhabited places

Counties

Towns

Natural features

Roads

Schools

Notes

  1. "In an effort to assist the efforts of local communities to re-examine these symbols, the SPLC launched a study to catalog them. For the final tally, the researchers excluded nearly 2,600 markers, battlefields, museums, cemeteries and other places or symbols that are largely historical in nature." [1]

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