Manchester Spanish American War Monument - Manchester, CT
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N 41° 46.507 W 072° 31.351
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The Manchester Spanish American War Monument is located in Center Memorial Park Center Street and Linden Street in Manchester, CT
Waymark Code: WM179FC
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 01/07/2023
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A granite monument erected by the Ward Cheney Camp #13 of the United Spanish War Veterans is engraved with the emblem of the Spanish War Veterans and has the inscription:
WARD CHENEY CAMP
No 13
U.S.W.V.
The base has the inscription:
A MEMORIAL TO THE BOYS OF MANCHESTER CONN.
WHO VOLUNTEERED AND SERVED
THEIR COUNTRY IN THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
Lieutenant Ward Cheney, member of a prominent Manchester family, was fighting Filipino guerrillas resisting United States rule. On 7 January 1900, while leading a column of the Fourth United States Infantry Regiment near Puente Julian, he was fatally wounded. He was 24 years old.
Ward Cheney Camp #13 of the United Spanish War Veterans was named in his honor. The organization was dissolved when it's last member died in 1992 at age 106.