This monument was erected to the memory of James Gillies, the fourteen year old bugler of Lt. Col. Henry "Lighthorse Harry" Lee. James Gillies died in a skirmish five miles north of Guilford Courthouse, on February 13, 1781. He was unarmed at the time of his death, having left his only weapon, a pistol, in a saddle holster on his horse, which he had loaned to another man. The inscription on the monument reads: GILLIES *Sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country. |
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