The Library terrace became the setting for the Spanish-American War Monument (1906), a memorial to the one hundred twenty St. Paul’s alumni who took part in the conflict in 1897-1898. This war roused Millville to a high pitch of patriotic fervor. It was a St. Paul’s graduate, Hamilton Fish, Jr., serving under Theodore Roosevelt, who became the first American to be killed in action. Later Roosevelt visited the school at Anniversary and expressed in person his admiration for the six St. Paul’s graduates who had served in his regiment. The memorial itself, a bronze statue by Bela Pratt, showed a soldier at ease but with an air of youthful idealism, which typified the attitude toward war of that innocent generation.