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Office of the Maryland Secretary of State. ^ "War Correspondents Memorial Arch, Crampton's Gap, Maryland".^ "Prelude to great struggle at Antietam".^ "The Civil War Correspondents Memorial Arch: George Alfred Townsend".^ a b c "War Correspondents Memorial Arch".Furthermore, many names are misstated and several important names are missing. Reese analyzed the list and asserted that only 135 can claim to be war correspondents or artists, and 33 of those are not identifiable in the historical record. In the late 1990s, local historian Timothy J. The monument's plaques lists 157 names which are sometimes assumed to be all war correspondents. Īlthough Townsend retained ownership of the property until his death in 1914, maintenance of the monument itself was entrusted to the National Park Service – previously to the War Department – in 1904. This account errs in that "Speed" and "Heed" appear under the heads of Electricity and Poetry, and the "statue of Pan" is actually a zinc copy of Bertel Thorvaldsen's Mercury About to Kill Argos created by the J.W. Perhaps the most striking feature of all are the tablets inscribed with the names of 157 correspondents and war artists who saw and described in narrative and picture almost all the events of the tour years of the war. These are from a great variety of sources beginning with Old Testament verses. At various places on the monument are quotations appropriate to the art of war correspondence. Over a small turret on the opposite side of the tower is a gold vane of a pen bending a sword. with the traditional pipes, and he is either half drawing or sheathing a Roman sword.
The aforementioned tower contains a statue of the Greek god Hermes (Roman god Mercury), the messenger of the gods, identifiable by the winged cap on his head. These arches represent Description, Depiction and Photography. The three Roman arches are made of limestone from Creek Battlefield, Virginia, and each is nine feet high and six feet wide. Tables under the horses' heads bear the suggestive words "Speed" and "Heed" the heads are over the Roman arches. Niches in different places shelter the carving of two horses' heads, and symbolic terra cotta statuettes of Mercury, Electricity and Poetry. These are flanked on one side with a square crenellated tower, producing a bizarre and picturesque effect. Above a Moorish arch sixteen feet high built of Hummelstown purple stone are super-imposed three Roman arches. It is fifty feet high and forty feet broad. The book George Alfred Townsend describes the monument: However, a tree in Arlington National Cemetery was also dedicated as a war correspondents' memorial in 1986. It is claimed that the arch is the only monument in the world dedicated to journalists killed in combat. It is located at Crampton's Gap at South Mountain, near Burkittsville, Maryland, in the United States.Ĭivil War correspondent George Alfred Townsend, or "Gath", built the arch in 1896, and it was dedicated October 16, 1896. The National War Correspondents Memorial, part of Gathland State Park, is a memorial dedicated to journalists who died in war.
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