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Construction and dedication of Silent Sam, 1913
The Confederate monument raised by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and dedicated on 2 June 1913, with Julian Carr’s speech.
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Leonidas Polk Chapter no. 556
Unveiling of the Confederate Monument, June 2, 1913
Title supplied by repository. Message on back of card reads, "My dear Mother, This is a photo. of the unveiling of our new monument to those who left the Univ. to enlist in the army in 1861. The parade yesterday was a f…
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- UNC's Confederate Monument is dedicated On June 2, 1913, the North Carolina Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and UNC alumni dedicated a Confederate soldier statue by John Wilson in… People: Julian S. CarrDocumenting the American South, Commemorative Landscapes: Confederate Monument (Silent Sam), Chapel Hill
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- NC LIVE: Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection NC LIVE The 1913 dedication as the papers reported it
- UNC University Libraries: Silent Sam Confederate Monument research guide UNC-Chapel Hill Related to the chronology entry “UNC's Confederate Monument Is Dedicated” (June 2, 1913).
- NC LIVE: JSTOR NC LIVE Scholarship on Confederate monuments and the Lost Cause
- NC LIVE: prepared search for Construction and dedication of Silent Sam, 1913 NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
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- Read contemporary evidence: DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel DigitalNC Every digitized issue by date, searchable
- Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
- Ask locally: Local History Help Hours and request form OCPL Local History Liaison The library’s Local History Liaison helps in person most Mondays, 12 to 3, at the Main Library, or by the online request form
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