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)
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