Portrait Relief of General William Schouler, 1873

Location: Camelia Path, Forest Hills Cemetery, Morton St. (State 203 Highway) Jamaica Plain, Boston

Description: The portrait relief of William Schouler (1814-1872), Scottish-born Massachusetts politician, editor and historian, is barely visible in this detail of his tall monument. As the Commonwealth's Adjutant-General during the Civil War, he was probely the one that notified Lincoln of the loss of five sons of a woman to whom Lincoln then wrote a masterfully consoling sympathy letter.

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