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Onslow County Confederate Soldiers Monument. Image courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. Photograph by Tom Vincent.
Source: Onslow County Confederate Soldiers Monument. Image courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. Photograph by Tom Vincent.

Description: This monument commemorates the "Men Who Wore The Grey" from Onslow County. It is likely an unfinished monument as a small pyramid of miniature cannon balls sits atop a granite pedestal designed to display a more grand memorial such as a column or obelisk, or possibly a figure such as a Confederate common soldier. The base is a fairly ornate design, with volutes of acanthus leaves in bas-relief.

Inscription: 
Front: IN / LOVING / MEMORY / OF THE / MEN / WHO WORE / THE GREY

Left: ONSLOW / COUNTY / CONFEDERATE / MEMORIAL / "LEST WE FORGET" / 1861-1865 / UNVEILED / DECEMBER 1957

Right: BY / THE ONSLOW / GUARDS / CHAPTER /CHARTERED / 1913

Rear: AND THE YOUNG ONSLOW CONFEDERATES OF THE UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY CHARTERED 1937

Dedication date: December 1957

Materials & Techniques: Granite

Sponsor: The Onslow Guards and the United Daughters of the Confederacy

Location: The monument sits at the entrance to the Onslow County Courthouse on Old Bridge Street. The front of the courthouse faces south.

Landscape: The monument sits in the center of a small rectangular garden bed, surrounded by evergreen and seasonal plantings. The bed sits in the center of a small plaza paved with slate stones. A flag pole flying the U.S. Flag sits in the bed behind the monument. The Onslow County World War I and World War II Memorial sits just a few feet away by the doors at the entrance to the courthouse.

City: Jacksonville

County: Onslow

Subjects: Civil War,Proposed/Incomplete Monuments

 

Latitude: 
34.75088
Longitude: 
-77.43136
 

Citation

Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina. "Onslow County Confederate Soldiers Monument." NCpedia. Commemorative Landscapes of NC, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Accessed on April 25th, 2025. https://www.ncpedia.org/monument/onslow-county-confederate.