War Correspondents Memorial Arch

Dedicated: October 16, 1896
Location: Crampton's Gap at South Mountain
Map Number: Off of the map
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War Correspondents Memorial Arch

NPS Photo

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

North side of Monument:

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

 

South side of Monument:
Army Artists
J.A. Becker	H. Bensancon
F. Beard	A. Berghaus
C.E. H. Bonuill	A. McCallum
S.S. Davis	W.R. McComas
F. Dielman	E.F. Mullen
G. Ellsbury	Fred Shell
S. Fox	W.L. Sheppard
C.E. Hillen	J.S. Trexler
E.B. Hough	G.F. Williams
J.F. Laycock	W. Waud
Southern
P.W. Alexander	Geo. Perry
Durant Daponte	Jas. B. Sener
F.g. DeFontaine	W. Shepardson
D.C. Jenkins	Henry Watterson
Geo. W. Olney
Artists
M.B. Brady	F.H. Mason
W.T. Crane	Larkin G. Mead
F.O.C. Darley	Henry Mosler
Theo. P. Davis	Frank Shell
Ed. Forbes	Dav. H. Strother
J. S. Jewett	Alfred Waud
Henry Lovi	J.E. Taylor
Arthur Lumley	H. Vizzitelly
Finley Anderson	J.N. Ashley
Adam Badean	T. Barnard
Geo. W. Beman	H. Bentley
W.D. Bickham	A.H. Bodman
Geo. C. Bower	Geo. C. Bower
J.H. Browne	S.T. Buckley
A.H. Byington	S. Cadwallader
S.M. Carpenter	T.M. Cash
F.G. Chapman	E.P. Church
G.W. Clarke	W.C. Church
C.C. Coffin	John A. Cockerill
J. Cook	R.Y. Colburn
E.E. Cuthbert	T.M. Cook
E. Crapsey	N. Davidson
W.E. Davis	E.F. DeNyse
Creighton	D.B. M. Eaton
L.L. Crounse	J.C. Fitzpatrick
J.P. Dunn	T.B. Glover
C.H. Farrell	C.H. Griffen
R.D. Francis	C. Hannem
T.C. Grey	G.H. Hart
Chas. G. Helpine	John Hay
B. Harding	L.A. Hendricks
J. Hasson	F. Henry
S. Hayes	A.S. Hill
A.P. Henry	E.H. House
V. Hickox	A. Hutson
G.W. Gosmer	W.P. Isham
D.R. Kem	W.H. Kent
Thos. W. Knox	R.C. Long
P.T. McAlpin	Richard C. McCormick
Joseph B. McCullagh	W.H. Merriam
J.E. Norcross	C.S. Noyes
G.H. Osbon	B.F. Osborn
C.A. Page	Nat'l Paige
U.H. Painter	Count De Paris
A. Paul	E.A. Paul
E. Peters	Henry J. Raymond
Whitelaw Reid	Albert D. Richardson
W.H. Runkle	O.G. Sawyer
W.F.G. Shanks	R.H. Shelly
George W. Smalley	Henry M. Stanley
Edmund C. Stedman	Jerome B. Stillson
W.H. Stiner	William Swinton
R.H. Sylvester	Ben. F. Taylor
Geo. Alfred Townsend	B.C. Truman
Henry Villard	J.H. Vosburg
E.W. Wallazz	J.S. Ward
Sam Ward	F. Watson
E.D. Westfall	F.B. Wilkie
Sam Wilkeson	F. Wilkison
A.W. Williams	J.C. Wilson
T.C. Wilson	John Russell Young
W. Young