JOHN SUMMERFIELD STAPLES
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N 40° 58.983 W 075° 12.162
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John Summerfield Staples
Waymark Code: WMV9
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 09/03/2005
Views: 55
Marker Name: John Summerfield Staples
County: Monroe
Date Dedicated: 1999/04/09
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: Main Street at Dresher Avenue, Stroudsburg
Category: Military, Civil War, Abraham Lincoln
Marker Text:
In 1864, President Lincoln named this young Stroudsburg man as his "representative recruit" for the Union Army in the Civil War. The U.S. War Department had appealed to citizens ineligible for the draft to furnish recruits, and Lincoln chose to set an example. After a White House meeting with the President on October 1, 1864, Staples served at Arlington, Virginia-one of fewer than 1300 representative recruits enrolled.
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