General Hugh Mercer Monument (Fredericksburg, Virginia)

 monument, American Revolutionary War 1775-1783, interesting place

This bronze statue of General Mercer was erected in 1906 by the United States Government. The sculptor was Edward Valentine of Richmond who did the famous reclining statue of Robert E. Lee at Washington Lee University.

Mercer was a General in the Revolution and was killed at the Battle of Princeton in January 12, 1777. He was a doctor who fled Scotland after the Battle of Culloden, where he had supported the Stuart cause. He came to Pennsylvania where he met Colonel George Washington during the French and Indian War. Mercer moved to Fredericksburg on Washington's advice to practice medicine and operate an apothecary shop.

General George S. Patton of World War II fame is a great, great, great grandson of Hugh Mercer.