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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: September 28, 2013
Caption: Close-up of photo on the nearby Burnside Bridge sign
Additional Description: Inscription on sign:

Just off to your right is the McKinley Monument, dedicated to the 24th President. William McKinley was a Commissary Sergeant with the 23rd Ohio of Colonel Hugh Ewing's Brigade. During the battle, Sergeant McKinley bravely served the soldiers in his regiment in the fields to your right.

After the war, McKinley served as a Congressman of Governor of Ohio. He was twice elected as President before he was shot by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York on September 6, 1901. The President survived for eight days before succumbing to his wound on September 14th. Just over a year before his death McKinley was here for the dedication of the Maryland State Monument, near the visitor center.
Submitted: September 29, 2013, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p255470
File Size: 2.430 Megabytes

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