Winston Monument, Guilford Courthouse

A statue of Joseph Winston stands defiantly on top of a granite base. Winston, clad in Revolutionary garb, grips his sword in his right hand while pointing forward with his left. The statue is made of composition metal, "so nearly resembling pure bronze that no one but an expert can distinguish it." Contemporary newspapers praised the statue and claimed that it was the "handsomest piece of statuary in North Carolina' and "as a work of art it has no equal in beauty in the South" The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC), December 12, 1894. Inscription: West face: IN MEMORY / OF THE / NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS / UNDER / MAJOR JOSEPH WINSTON / WHO WERE FIGHTING THE / HESSIANS / AND TARLETON’S CAVALRY / NEAR THIS SPOT/ AFTER THE CONTINENTAL LINE / HAD RETREATED / FROM THE FIELD OF BATTLE / MARCH 15TH, 1781