Sunday, March 11, 2018

How often do you see a memorial to war reporters?

The National War Correspondents Memorial, part of Gathland State Park in Maryland, is a memorial dedicated to journalists who covered the Civil War. Civil War correspondent George Alfred Townsend built the arch in 1896 as a tribute to his fellow journalists, and it was dedicated October 16, 1896.

The monument contains the names of three men who reported the war for the Mobile Register: Peter W. Alexander, Felix G. de Fontaine, and Henry Watterson, famed editor of the Louisville Courier Journal after the war.




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