Gates County Confederate MemorialThe monument to the Confederate dead is located in front of the old Farm Services Agency buildingwhich now houses the Cooperative Extension Agency and the Gates Co. Board of elections on Court Street in Gatesville. The monument reads as follows: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Our Confederate Dead 1915 Gates Co. furnished the youngest General officer in the Confederate States
Army. Wm. P. Roberts. without military training was upon merit alone commissioned
Brig. Gen. at the age of 23 |