MEMORIAL TO FALLEN WAR CORRESPONDENTS
The only known memorial to newspaper war correspondents, a 50-foot structure bearing the names of U.S. newspapermen who covered the war will be rededicated and brought up to date with the addition of names of outstanding correspondents of other wars. The Nationai Parks Service keeps the 50-year-old memorial, overlooking the roiling farm lands and stone fences of the Middetown and Pleasant Valleys of western Maryland, in good repair. tlt wa(s erected through the efforts of George Alfred Towiisend — "Garth" of Civil ' War journalistic renown— on his estate, , Gapland1. At the base o£ the standstone nxemorial is a Moorish arch. .Superimposed on that are three Roman arches, flanked by a square crenellated tower. Orie of its tablete bears a p'oem extolling the qualities of newspapermen called "War Correspondents Ballad." Another bears the legend "to the army correspondents and artists, '1861-65, whose toils cheered the camps, thrilledvthe fireside, educated provinces of rustics into a bright nation of readers and gave incentive to narrate distant wars and explore (lark lands."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5287, 27 December 1946, Page 2
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172MEMORIAL TO FALLEN WAR CORRESPONDENTS Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5287, 27 December 1946, Page 2
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