Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-23
Memorial to Col. Fletcher
Webster Dedicated on Bull
Run Battlefield.
TRIBUTE FROM VETERANS
OF 18TH MASSACHUSETTS
G, A. R. and W. R. C. of the Dis
trict Represented at Exercises.
Welcome by Col. Berkeley.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
| MANASSAS, Va, October 23.-Vet-
Grams of the north and south met today
on the Bull Run battlefield to dedicate
a memorial to Col. Fletcher Webster, who
met his death in the second battle Of
Manassas. The memorial consists of a
4,000-pound granite bowlder and bronze
tablet, bearing this inscription:
In memory Of
Col. Fletcher Webster,
Who here fell August 30, 1862.
While sailantly leading his regiment.
This memorial was dedicated October g. 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.
Liberty and Union
Now and forever. and inSeparable.'
This bowlder taken from
The Webster place, Marshfeld. Mass.
The exercises were in charge of Gen.
John E. Gilman of Boston, member Of
the 18th Massachusetts,. The dedicatory
address was made by Lieut.. Samuel
Appleton of st. Paul, Mimi, member of
the 18th Massachusetts and grandson of
Daniel Webster.
poem was read by DR.. Henry Mazyck
Clarkson of Haymarket, this county,
Confederate soldier.
The G. A. r. of the District of Co
lumbia was represented at the exer-
cises by Col John McElroy and Col.
John L. Glen. Mrs: Isabella Worrell
Ball, former national senior vice presi-
dent of the Womans Relief Corps, rep
resented that organization.
The program concluded with a lunch
con served by the Daughters of the
Confederacy in the pavilion of the
field.
Welcomed by Col. Berkeley.
The Massachusetts veterans arrived
this morning on a special train and
were escorted to the Prince William
county courthouse. Here the address
of welcome. on behalf of Gov. Stuart,
was made by Col. Edmund Berkeley,
ranking Confederate veteran of Prince
William county, ninety-two years old,
who recalls the voices of Webster, Clay,
Calhoun and others; the handclasps Of
Gems. Longstreet, Early. Sherman.
Grant and Lee, and who. at the age Of
two years, was held in the arms of the
Marquis de Lafayette.
The response was by Lieut.. Col. Ben
jamin F. Cook, also a member of the
18th Massachusetts,, who. with Col.
Berkeley, led the procession to the bat
tlefield.
About 400 Manassas school children
also shared in the welcome, as, robed
ica," which was written by Mary Speed
Mercer of Elm City. N. G.. and sung as
the jubilee anthem at the reunion of
the Blue and Gray here July 81, 1911,
fifty years after the first engagement
of the civil war.
A poem, The Cool of the Day." writ
ten for the occasion, was read by the
author, Rev. T. D. D. Clark of Manas-
sas.
Letter From President Wilson.
Lieut.. George Carr Round of Manas-
sas, president of the United States
Veteran Signal Corps Association, is in
receipt of a number of letters express
ing interest in the dedication. The fol-
lowing is from the White House:
my Dear Sir:
81 wish most sincerely that I could
comply with your request Of your let
ter of October 10.
MY thoughts will certainly be with
you October %, when the Webster me-
mortal is to be dedicated on the bat
tlefield Of Bull Run, and 1 hope the
occasion will be celebrated under the
most happy auspices.
Sincerely yours.
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON"