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The War of Northern Aggression turns 150 today:

To South Carolina's Dead
Of The
Confederate Army
1861 1865

This monument
perpetuates the memory ,
of those who true to the instincts of their birth,
faithful to the teachings of their fathers,
constant in their love for the State,
died in the performance of their duty:
Who have glorified a fallen cause
by the simple manhood of their lives,
the patient endurance of suffering,
and the heroism of death,
and who, in the dark house of imprisonment,
in the hopelessness of the hospital,
in the short, sharp agony of the field
found support and consolation
in the belief that at home they would not be forgotten.

Let the stranger, who may in the future times
read this inscription,
recognize that these were men
whom power could not corrupt,
whom death could not terrify,
whom defeat could not dishonor
and let their virtues plead
for just judgment of the cause in which they perished.

Let the South Carolinian
of another generation
remember that the State taught them
how to live and how to die.
And that from her broken fortunes
she has preserved for her children
the priceless treasure of their memories,
teaching all who may claim
the same birthright that truth, courage and patriotism
endure forever.