The North Carolina monument at Reams Station is on the Civil War Trust battlefield off Halifax Road, ten miles south of Petersburg. (map)
From the front of the monument:
North Carolina
N. C. Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans.
From the tablet on the top of the monument:
The following North Carolina units honorably and gallantly
participated in the action at Reams Station on August 25, 1864
Infantry
Lane’s Brigade
Seventh, Eighteenth, Twenty-Eighth, Thirty-Third, Thirty-Seventh
Scale’s Brigade
Thirteenth, Sixteenth, Twenty-Second, Thirty-Fourth, Thirty-Eighth
Cooke’s Brigade
Fifteenth, Twenty-Seventh, Forty-Sixth, Forty-Eighth
Kirkland’s – MacRae’s Brigade
Eleventh, Twenty-Sixth, Forty-Fourth, Forty-Seventh, Fifty-Second
Cavalry
Gorden’s – Barringer’s Brigade
First, Second, Third, Fifth
“If the men who remain in North Carolina share the same spirit of those they have sent to the field, as I doubt not they do, her defense may securely trusted to their hands.”
R.E. Lee General
