The monument stands on the spot where, as a teenager in 1862, the future President McKinley served coffee to his comrades during the combat of the Battle of Antietam. The inscription on the monument states that McKinley delivered his coffee "under fire" and "personally and without orders.
William McKinley survived the Civil War, only to be killed by an assassin’s bullet while serving as the nation’s 25th President.
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