The Mercer Monument - Virginia
N 38° 18.258 W 077° 28.037
18S E 284261 N 4242458
The Mercer Monument stands on Washington Ave. in historic Fredericksburg.
Waymark Code: WM735F
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 08/25/2009
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| The MERCER MONUMENT, center of Washington Ave. at Fauquier St., is a bronze figure of General Hugh Mercer by Edward V. Valentine, erected by Congress in 1906. Virginia: A Guide To The Old Dominion 1940 |
Also from Virginia: A Guide To The Old Dominion, pg. 222:
Dr. Hugh Mercer, a Scottish Jacobite, met disaster at Culloden as an army surgeon with Bonnie Prince Charlie, emigrated to America, fought in the French and Indian War, became a close friend of Washington, and on his advice settled in Fredericksburg. Here he practiced medicine and conducted his apothecary shop. He entered the Revolution as a colonel of militia but was a brigadier general when he was killed at the Battle of Princeton.
Today, Hugh Mercer still stands in the middle of Washington Ave. brandishing his sword.