Career
Webster was appointed from his home state of Vermont to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1819. He graduated in 1823 and was made a brevet Second Lieutenant of artillery. In 1838, he participated in the Army"s removal of Cherokee Native Americans from North Carolina on the Trail of Tears.
Lucien married Frances Smith, the sister of Edmund Kirby Smith on December 21, 1837 in Saint Augustine, Saint Johns County, Florida.