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.
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.
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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