Battles of Manassas • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies
The monument to Colonel Fletcher Webster is on the Second Bull Run battlefield along the Chinn Ridge trail at the location where he was mortally wounded. The Chinn Ridge trailhead is at Stop 10 on the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour.
Colonel Webster raised, organized and commanded the 12th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. He was the son of Senator Daniel Webster. A nearby wayside marker tells more about the death of Colonel Webster at the Second Battle of Bull Run on August 30, 1862.
Text from the monument:
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.
Location and Directions
The monument to Colonel Webster is on Chinn Ridge along a walking trail about one third of a mile north of the parking area on the Chinn Ridge Loop. Stop 10 is reached by a park road that turns off Sudley Road (Virginia 234) directly opposite the entrance to the Henry Hill Visitor Center. Although unnamed, the road is clearly marked for Chinn Ridge by National Park signage. From Sudley Road it is about 0.9 mile to the parking area at the end of the road. From the parking area walk 3/10 mile north along the Chinn Ridge Foot Trail. The monument is about 200 feet to the east of the “Death of Fletcher Webster” wayside marker. (38° 48.607′ N, 77° 31.921′ W)