Lucien Bonaparte Webster (March 17, 1801 – November 4, 1853) was a career United States Army officer from Vermont who served in the Mexican–American War and at Fort Brown in Texas.

His oldest brother Horace graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and had an initial assignment there as a mathematics teacher.

She was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, and her family had moved to Florida in 1823 when her father Joseph Lee Smith was appointed as a judge of the superior court.

[5] In 1838, Webster participated in the Army's removal of Cherokee Native Americans from North Carolina, who were forced on the Trail of Tears to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.

Her younger brother, Edmund Kirby Smith, later graduated from West Point and, during the American Civil War, became one of seven full generals of the Confederate Army.