Number   00654

Scan Date   6/17/02

Time Period   Dec. 9, 1921

Subject Matter   Marshal Foch

Location  Monroe, North Carolina

Description        Speech & Presentation by Marshal Foch on courthouse steps
Ex-Governor Walter Bickett (native of Monroe, North Carolina, seated)
Governor Cameron Morrison, standing
Marshal Ferdinand Foch, standing on the East balcony of the Union County Courthouse

Photographer (if known)

Notes

Picture was giving by Ben Horne

Historic Highway marker erected for this event can be found at the corner of Jefferson & Hayne Streets.  The Fifth and Seventeenth Field Artillery Regiments of Camp Bragg (N.C.) were each presented a fourragere from the government of France. (notes added by pmp 9/25/09)

Measurements of original photograph

Height   8"

Width  11"

Type of photograph  Color