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1. ARCH_040620_19.JPG: Burial: A Most Disagreeable Task The treatment of soldiers killed in action depended on which army held the battlefield after the guns fell silent. At South Mountain, a few men from each Union regiment were assigned to burial details. To prevent the spread of disease, they lined up the dead where they fell and hurriedly buried them in shallow trenches. Under the best of circumstances it was not pleasant duty. The burial details processed their own dead first, often identifying the bodied by notes pinned to dead soldiers' uniforms. The Confederates who died at South Mountain were less fortunate. Most lost their identity at burial. Their last memorial was usually a simple inscription on a crude, wooden headboard that read: "100 dead Rebs buried here." Some Union families personally retrieved the bodies of their loved ones for reburial after the battle. Most of the Union dead, however, remained buried on the battlefield until 1867, when the War Department reinterred them in the Antietam National Cemetery. The National Cemetery trustees refused to accept the Confederate dead, so the State of Maryland provided a permanent burial ground at the Rose Hill Cemetery in Hagerstown. The South Mountain Confederate dead were laid to rest at Rose Hill Cemetery in 1874. War Correspondent's Memorial Arch The arch was built in 1896 as a permanent memorial to newspaper correspondents, artists, and photographers of the Civil War. Standing 50 feet tall and 40 feet wide, the Arch's unusual design was inspired by two Hagerstown structures: the former B&O Railroad passenger depot which utilized a horseshoe-shaped arch, and the Antietam Fire Co. Station No 2, which incorporated a crenelated tower. Names of 157 men from the North and South, who documented the Civil War, are inscribed on tablets embedded in the east facade. Biblical and classical references to the skills of the war correspondent are incorporated into the design. The central sculpture bears symbols of war, speed, and storytelling. The Arch's symbolic decoration reflects Townsend's whimsical taste in art, further illustrated by Townsend's verse: "...The bookman's art is left behind And letters only vex. Write them in stone, ye minds of men! And live as architects!"
2. ARCH_040620_31.JPG: Directory of Army Correspondents Memorial: Governor Lloyd Lowndes George Alfred Townsend John Hay Richard C. McCormick Edmund C. Stedman Henry Watterson Whitelaw Reid Joseph B. McCullough Crosby S. Noyes Nathaniel Paige Edward W. Menley John L. Smithmeyer, Architect Junius Henri Browne James Elverson Francis J. Richardson Victor Lawson John C. Moore Daniel Houser
3. ARCH_040620_33.JPG: A tablet of listing the names of Army Correspondents
4. ARCH_040620_36.JPG: A tablet listing Army Artists, both northern and southern. Included in the list is Matthew Brady (the famous photographer) and Alfred Waud (the famous illustrator).
5. ARCH_040620_83.JPG: This was Townsend's barn. It was built in 1887 (the date is still on it). The stone walls are two feet thick. Townsend raised his own vegetables on his estate.
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Wikipedia Description: Gathland State Park
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Gathland State Park is a small state park located near Burkittsville, Maryland in the United States. The park is composed of the remains of the estate of George Alfred Townsend (1841-1914), a correspondent during the American Civil War who wrote under the pen name "Gath". Several buildings remain on the estate, including the War Correspondents Memorial Arch, and the Appalachian trail passes through the grounds.

History:

The area of the current park includes Crampton's Gap, which saw fighting during the Battle of South Mountain, one of the first battles of the Maryland Campaign during the American Civil War. In 1884, Townsend, now a successful journalist, purchased the land as a retreat and began work on what would become Gathland, his estate. His first project was Gapland Hall, an eleven room house built in 1885. This was followed that same year by Gapland Lodge, a stone servants' quarters. In 1890 a large building was erected to house a study, a library, and ten bedrooms.

Townsend's most famous and longest-lasting project was completed in 1896: The War Correspondents Memorial Arch. It is claimed that the arch is the only monument in the world dedicated to journalists killed in combat. (However, at least one other memorial monument specifically dedicated to journalists fallen in combat exists in the United States - the War Correspondents' Memorial marker in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington DC, dedicated in 1986.)

The book George Alfred Townsend describes the monument:

In appearance the monument is quite odd. It is fifty feet high and forty feet broad. Above a Moorish arch sixteen feet high built of Hummelstown purple stone are super-imposed three Roman arches. These are flanked on one side with a square crenellated tower, producing a bizarre and picturesque effect. Niches in different places shelter the carving of two horses' heads, and symbolic terra cotta statuettes of Mercury ...More...
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