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War Correspondents Memorial Arch
Monument Text:
SPEED - HEED
Sept. 14 - 62 - 96
To the Army Correspondents
and
Artists 1861-65
Whose toils cheered the fireside
Educated provinces of rustics into
a bright nation of readers
and gave incentive to narrate
distant wars and explore dark lands.
Erected by subscriptions
1896
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North side of Monument:
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O wondrous youth
Through this grand ruth
Runs my boy's life, its thread
The General's fame, the battle's name
The rolls of maimed and dead
I bear with my thrilled soul astir
And lonely thoughts and fears
And am but history's courier
To bind the conquering years
A battle's ray, through ages gray
To light to deeds sublime
And flash the lustre of my day
Down all the aisles of time
War Correspondent Ballad - 1865 |
Directory of Army Correspondent Memorial
Governor Lloyd Lowndee
George Alfred Townsend
John Hay
Richard C. McCormick
Edmund C. Stedman
Henry Watterson
Whitelaw Reid
Joseph B. McCullogh
Crosby S. Noyes
Nathaniel Paige
Edward W. Mealey
John L. Smithmeyer, Architect
Junius Henri Browne
James Elverson
Francis A. Richardson
Victor Lawson
John G. Moore
Daniel Houser |
