'This is where he belongs': Plymouth's 123rd brick honors a hometown soldier

Aug 26, 2026 at 07:45 am by Dale-RB

Edwards Boots (left), Jimmy Hardison and Marletha Snowden Dyer pose at the Plymouth Field of Honor memo rial with a brick recently placed for Dyer’s ancestor Wil liam Morse. Morse was a Washington County native who was a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War. (beacon photo by Dale Herlig)

PLYMOUTH — Overcast skies Saturday were no match for the spirit and genealogical fervor of a Northern Virginia woman who joined museum associates in the placement of the 123rd inscribed brick at Plym outh’s Civil War Field of Honor on East Main Street — a brick that me morializes a Plymouth son from the 1860s.

For more information, check out the Aug. 26, 2026, edition of the Roanoke Beacon.

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'This is where he belongs': Plymouth's 123rd brick honors a hometown soldier

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