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COLONEL FLETCHER WEBSTER WAR MEMORIAL PLAQUE

COLONEL FLETCHER WEBSTER WAR MEMORIAL PLAQUE
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Location: MANASSAS NATIONAL BATTLE PARK

City: MANASSAS

State: Virginia

Zip Code: 20109

Type of Memorial: Plaques On Stone

Year Dedicated: 1914

Access: Public

Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR

Photograph By: CRAIG SWAIN

Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org

IN MEMORY OF COLONEL FLETCHER WEBSTER WHO HERE FELL AUGUST 30, 1862 WHILE GALLANTLY LEADING HIS REGIMENT THE 12TH MASS. VOLUNTEERS. THIS MEMORIAL WAS DEDICATED OCT 21, 1914 BY SURVIVORS OF HIS REGIMENT AND FLETCHER WEBSTER POST, G.A.R. OF BROCKTON, MASS. HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR THE PRINCIPLES LAID DOWN BY HIS FATHER DANIEL WEBSTER. “LIBERTY AND UNION NOW AND FOREVER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE.” THIS BOULDER WAS TAKEN FROM THE WEBSTER PLACE, MARSHFIELD, MASS.


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