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In Memory of Those Journalists Who Gave Their Lives
Reporting on the War on Terrorism
Daniel Pearl
The Wall Street Journal
Afghanistan - February 2002
David Bloom
NBC News
Iraq - April 2003
Michael Kelly
The Atlantic Monthly
The W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18S2_mausoleum_Jefferson-MD.html
Townsend regarded Gapland as a lasting monument to himself and his craft and wanted to rest here for all time. Townsend designed and erected his Mausoleum in 1895. Its four vaults were intended to house his remains and those of his wife and parent…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18FH_war-correspondents-memorial-arch_Jefferson-MD.html
This stone Arch, the culmination of Townsend's architectural endeavors, 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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15E1_gaths-empty-tomb_Jefferson-MD.html
During the 19th century few people bought burial lots in public cemeteries as we do today. Instead, a small parcel of their own land was usually set aside as a private cemetery. If enough money was available, a mausoleum (tomb) was often built for…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM92Q_war-correspondents_Jefferson-MD.html
Speed - HeedSept. 14 - 62 - 96To the Army Correspondentsand Artists 1861-65
Whose toils cheered the fireside Educated provinces of rustics intoa bright nation of readers and gave incentive to narrate distant wars and explore dark lands.
Ere…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR7_medal-of-honor-recipients_Jefferson-MD.html
In July 1862 Congress authorized the president to present medals to soldiers of the United States Army for gallant and meritorious service. On September 14, 1862, two soldiers so distinguished themselves during the fighting at Crampton's Gap that …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR6_bartlett-leads-the-way_Jefferson-MD.html
Colonel Joseph J. Bartlett, the Commander of the Second Brigade of Franklin's First Division, found himself in a curious position. As a brigade commander, Bartlett chose both the field across which Franklin's Corps would attack and the formation f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR5_the-stage-is-set_Jefferson-MD.html
On the evening of September 13, 1862, Confederate cavalry under Brigadier General Wade Hampton and Colonel Thomas Munford occupied the Crampton's Gap/Burkittsville vicinity. Early on the 14th, Major General J.E.B. Stuart, en route to Harpers Ferry…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR1_burial-a-most-disagreeable-task_Jefferson-MD.html
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 u…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR0_padgetts-field-confederate-last-stand_Jefferson-MD.html
On September 14, 1862, this area was an open field belonging to George W. Padgett. A wooden, rail fence lined the road on the east. A low, stone wall bordered the field to the west. As the shattered remnants of Brigadier General Howell Cobb's forc…