War Correspondents

During the Civil War years of 1861-65, army correspondents and artists were honored for labors that cheered the fireside, turned provinces of rustics into a bright nation of readers, and gave incentive to narrate distant wars and explore dark lands. A ballad of 1865 portrayed the war correspondent as history's courier, carrying the general's fame, the battle's name, and the rolls of maimed and dead, and binding the conquering years while a battle's ray flashed the lustre of the day down all the aisles of time. In 1896, subscriptions erected a memorial that included directories of army correspondents, army artists, Southern contributors, and other writers and illustrators associated with that work.

Maryland · United States