Another casualty to political correctness.
Via News and Record
It was an event years in the making, but for the North Carolina chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, it probably felt more like a century.
That’s because the organization dedicated the Reidsville Confederate Monument on Saturday afternoon, almost 104 years to the day of the original ceremony.
Now the monument has a new home in Greenview Cemetery and a new name — Triumphant.
“It is our hope Triumphant will stand guard forever, protecting the graves of nearby soldiers and continue to serve as a reminder of the gallant men who left us with this rich sense of history and of valor, and with a renewed appreciation of our Confederate heritage,” said Lois Marlow, the president of the state division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
More than 75 people attended the 30-minute ceremony.
The controversy of moving the statue from downtown Reidsville to the cemetery started with a 2011 car accident that toppled and broke the original Confederate soldier statue.
Officials from both the city of Reidsville and the state United Daughters of the Confederacy withstood ridicule and lawsuits surrounding the removal of the monument from a downtown intersection.
City residents endured divisiveness and national media attention following the controversy.
But finally, the soldier stands guard in the center of Greenview Cemetery looking over the graves of the buried Confederate soldiers and other residents who chose the location as their burial spot.