James Gillies Monument Photograph
A single mounted photograph of the James Gillies Monument in Oak Ridge, North Carolina. The inscription on the monument is visible.
Dates
- 1898
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Extent
0.25 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Abstract
A single mounted photograph of the James Gillies Monument in Oak Ridge, North Carolina.
Biographical / Historical
The James Gillies Monument, also known as the Bugle Boy Monument, was dedicated on May 6, 1898. The monument honors James Gillies, a young soldier and bugler boy killed in Guilford County, North Carolina, by British colonel Banastre Tarleton’s dragoons during a retreat in the Revolutionary War in 1781. The monument stands in Guilford Courthouse National Military Park. Gillies, born in 1767, is buried in a family cemetery in Guilford County.
Arrangement
This collection is in one folder.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository