Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-22

and altogether unique, and Its execution
would perhaps have an influence upon the
civilizat ion of future wars.
The press in its warlike relation has best
illustrated It's represen tative character.
To the journal of Marat We're due the
worst excuses Of the French revolution,
while the American Continental Congress
calmly conducted its seven wears OF armed
existence. moving from Philadelphia to
Lancaster, to York. Pa, and Baltimore
and after the war it went to Trenton and
Annapolis. but everywhere had Its printer
with it.
Mr.. G. A. Townsend has in his library at
Gapland a copy of the printed and bound
Journal of Congress. printed at York, in
ITS, where Congress spent that year, and
it only then reached the official printing Of
the Declaration Of Independence, which had
been voted two years before. The book Is
properly annotated thus:
'Their method you shall see,
The pains their printer took;
Such men must needs be free
Who governed by The Book"
In the library at Gapland is also copy.
perhaps the only one in the United States.
of the London Gazette Extraordinary. Is
sued as an extra upon the receipt of the
news of the capture of Quebec by General
Wolfe, in October. 1859 1t cost f3 in Lon
don, and has been inclosed between glass
frames, so as to read both sides. Its tone Is
unexciting. while it gives particulars of the
arms. etc. captured, and four times the
name Of George Townshend, the ranking
officer not disabled. is signed to the dis
patches. This battle settled the fate Of
North America.
Among Mr.. Townsend's books, quite con-
veniently placed to this memorial of the re-
corders of war, are Stedman's History Of the
American Revolution, the author of which
served with Gage at Boston and Clinton on
Long Isla Id, and wrote and drew we'll in
1874; Tarlton's account of his cavalry opera
lions, as the predecessor of Stuart and Sheri-
dan; Major Smythe's journal from the tory
or loyalist side Of his attempt to revolu-
tioniZe Maryland by bringing the western
Indians over the very site of this memorial,
the book published in Dublin, 1854. when
Ireland pirated English copyrights and was
a publishers town; Sargent's diaries Of
officers in Braddock's campaign; Wilkin-
sons and Harry Lees revolutionary me-
moirs by the actors therein: Secretary of
War John Armstrong; notes on the cam
paigns of 1914, in which Washington city
was burnt, and long line of army chron-
iclers and biographers preceding regular
army correspondents.
The Last of an Evolution.
Indeed, the correspondents memorial is
the last Of an evolution growing onward
since the civil war, and the large stone
library, den or factory within two or three
hundred feet Of the monument will be open
to the surviving correspondents when they
visit the spot.
Among the last of its ornaments is paint
by Mr.. Young, the native artist there, and
one of the first is a John Browns pike.
Browns raid was convened only a few
miles from the monument, and those of his
men who escaped to Pennsylvania passed
where this mem orial is to stand.
Gen. James Wilkinson, who was the best
reporter of the battles Of the revolution, en-
rdns to s r from the en- o a1
Of Monocacy river, sixteen miles from the
army correspondents, memorial. He was on
Gates staff. -. {,
Two miles from this monument is the old
mansion of Governor Sim Lee Of the revo-
luton, friend Of Washington; sixteen miles
from the memorial is Charlestown, the home
Of General Daniel Morgan, and the shrine
vas sung by Whittier and painted and
etched by Hovenden.
Both Charles Lee and Horatio Gates as
we'll as Gen. John Shelby, lived in the gen
eral vicinity Of the correspondents mon
ument.
Harper's Ferry is eight miles away; Nc
Clellans lookout over, Antietam four
miles, the other half of the battle of South
Mountain five miles, from the memorial:
Franklin ran over Howell Cobb's legion
September IA. 1862, :. and caused McLaws
to descend from Maryland Heights and
form. line of battle under this gap.
Where the memorial Is to stand the pa
thetic echo in the gap Of Franklin's in
curing guns was the only response from
Harper's Ferry, where Miles had surren-
dered the morning Of the battle Of South
Mountain. General Franklin is a contribu-
tor to the army correspondents memoir
ial, and writes:
II congratulate you on having such a
constant joy in scenery"
Gapland in War Times.
Gapland In the war was mountain top
cross roads. 300 feet above the two val
leys. Catoctin and Pleasant, which it in
terviews; it had no houses. and vas seven
miles from the Potomac river and railroad.
It was one Of the three gaps in South
Mountain carried hx Mcclellan. whose