War Correspondents

<center> <b>Speed - Heed</b><br> Sept. 14 - 62 - 96<br> To the Army Correspondents<br> and Artists 1861-65 <br><br> Whose toils cheered the fireside <br> Educated provinces of rustics into<br> a bright nation of readers <br> and gave incentive to narrate <br> distant wars and explore dark lands.<br><br></center> <center>Erected by subscriptions 1896 </center><br> <center> <i>(North side) </i><br><br> O wondrous youth <br> Through this grand ruth <br> Runs my boy's life, its thread <br> The General's fame, the battle's name <br> The rolls of maimed and dead <br> I bear with my thrilled soul astir <br> And lonely thoughts and fears <br> And am but history's courier <br> To bind the conquering years <br> A battle's ray, through ages gray <br> To light to deeds sublime <br> And flash the lustre of my day <br> Down all the aisles of time <br> War Correspondent Ballad - 1865 <br><br></center> [ Monument Text ]<br><br> <i>(North side)</i><br> <b>Directory of Army Correspondent Memorial</b><br> Governor Lloyd Lowndee • George Alfred Townsend • John Hay • Richard C. McCormick • Edmund C. Stedman • Henry Watterson • Whitelaw Reid • Joseph B. McCullogh • Crosby S. Noyes • Nathaniel Paige • Edward W. Mealey • John L. Smithmeyer, Architect • Junius Henri Browne • James Elverson • Francis A. Richardson • Victor Lawson • John G. Moore • Daniel Houser <br><br> <i>(South side)</i><br> <b>Army Artists </b><br> J.A. Becker • H. Bensancon • F. Beard • A. Berghaus • C.E. H. Bonuill • A. McCallum • S.S. Davis • W.R. McComas • F. Dielman • E.F. Mullen • G. Ellsbury • Fred Shell • S. Fox • W.L. Sheppard • C.E. Hillen • J.S. Trexler • E.B. Hough • G.F. Williams • J.F. Laycock • W. Waud <br> <b>Southern </b><br> P.W. Alexander • Geo. Perry • Durant Daponte • Jas. B. Sener • F.g. DeFontaine • W. Shepardson • D.C. Jenkins • Henry Watterson • Geo. W. Olney <br> <b>Artists </b><br> M.B. Brady • F.H. Mason • W.T. Crane • Larkin G. Mead • F.O.C. Darley • Henry Mosler • Theo. P. Davis • Frank Shell • Ed. Forbes • Dav. H. Strother • J. S. Jewett • Alfred Waud • Henry Lovi • J.E. Taylor <br> <i> ( Not Seen Today )</i><br> Arthur Lumley • H. Vizzitelly • Finley Anderson • J.N. Ashley • Adam Badean • T. Barnard • Geo. W. Beman • H. Bentley • W.D. Bickham • A.H. Bodman • Geo. C. Bower • Geo. C. Bower • J.H. Browne • S.T. Buckley • A.H. Byington • S. Cadwallader • S.M. Carpenter • T.M. Cash • F.G. Chapman • E.P. Church • G.W. Clarke • W.C. Church • C.C. Coffin • John A. Cockerill • J. Cook • R.Y. Colburn • E.E. Cuthbert • T.M. Cook • E. Crapsey • N. Davidson • W.E. Davis • E.F. DeNyse • Creighton • D.B. M. Eaton • L.L. Crounse • J.C. Fitzpatrick • J.P. Dunn • T.B. Glover • C.H. Farrell • C.H. Griffen • R.D. Francis • C. Hannem • T.C. Grey • G.H. Hart • Chas. G. Helpine • John Hay • B. Harding • L.A. Hendricks • J. Hasson • F. Henry • S. Hayes • A.S. Hill • A.P. Henry • E.H. House • V. Hickox • A. Hutson • G.W. Gosmer • W.P. Isham • D.R. Kem • W.H. Kent • Thos. W. Knox • R.C. Long • P.T. McAlpin • Richard C. McCormick • Joseph B. McCullagh • W.H. Merriam • J.E. Norcross • C.S. Noyes • G.H. Osbon • B.F. Osborn • C.A. Page • Nat'l Paige • U.H. Painter • Count De Paris • A. Paul • E.A. Paul • E. Peters Henry • J. Raymond • Whitelaw Reid • Albert D. Richardson • W.H. Runkle • O.G. Sawyer • W.F.G. Shanks • R.H. Shelly • George W. • Smalley Henry M. Stanley • Edmund C. • Stedman Jerome B. Stillson • W.H. Stiner • William Swinton • R.H. Sylvester • Ben. F. Taylor • Geo. Alfred Townsend • B.C. Truman • Henry Villard • J.H. Vosburg • E.W. Wallazz • J.S. Ward • Sam Ward • F. Watson • E.D. Westfall • F.B. Wilkie • Sam Wilkeson • F. Wilkison • A.W. Williams • J.C. Wilson • T.C. Wilson • John Russell Young • W. Young •