Evening star., 1915-09-12

creek, you come upon such places as
CARROTS Mill, Augusta. Yarrowsburg,
Brownsville and Gspland. and on the
left the slight break in Elk Ridge
shows the location of Solomons pass.
Near Gapland the Rambler turned
toward the east, with South mountain
before him. The country is rough and
hilly. with numerous streams running
from the mountain pass through the
fields. The road winds among the foot
hills of the range, seeking the easiest
grade, but here and there you come
upon an elevation, whence is obtained
a good view of the valley.
The road, striking the base of the
ridge, takes a slanting course toward
Champions gap, but for the greater
part of it's way lays through woods
with only now and then clearing.
Finally there is sharp rise In the
road, you pass tollgate and few
yards further on you stand in the pass
SO that you may look down either into
Pleasant valley, or the broader valley
through which runs Catoctin creek,
and which is also called Middletown
valley.
In this gap and on the brow of the
hill commanding the valley to the east
ents and the artists of the civil war.
This is one of the interesting Things
in the battle sections of Maryland and
Virginia. 1t was erected largely
fred Townsend. who had set up his
home at Champions gap. The monu-
ment is not like other monuments. A
writer who visited the monument sew
eral years ago wrote of 1t as follows:
''In building the memorial 1t was intended to
symbolic much as possible the purpose for
which IT. was % in which
The form Of feudal gateway was nnally Sc
lected and 1t was placed at the meeting OF two
designed like a section of a feudal castle wall.
has horseshoe arch sixteen feet high This
horseshoe is meant to typify the horseshoe on
which the correspondent sped to his work, while
the three upper arches: each much smaller than
correspondence-narrative, picture and photogra-
ply:
from which may be seen the white figure of Or
pheus playing the pipes Of Pan and idling with
sword. Heads representing Poetry an and ssa Mer-
are placed in the fanking spaces Of the arch
Across the main facade Of the mon monument s,s is a
these words. War Correspondents.
On the west wall of the memorial are
two horse heads in terra Gotta. On
each side of the horseshoe arch is
gold shield across which run bands.
The legend on one shield is Speed"
and on the other Heed"
On the east face of the memorial are
two great limestone slabs deep cut
the memorial was reared. One slab is
carved with the names of correspond
ents and the other with the names of
artists. The names of the correspond
ents are:
Finley Anderson. J. n Ashley. Adam Badeau.
T. Barnard. George W. Beaman. II. Bentley.
W. d. Bickham. A. II. Bodman. George G.
Bulkley. A. H. Byington. C. Caduallader,-S NJ.
Carpenter, T. NJ. Cash, F. G. Chapman. F. P.
Church. G. W. Clarke. John A. CockeriH, c. G.
r II NJ.
Gfsishtg9 CToqnse i. cgnser5 Sass
Dunn. d. r. NJ. Eaton, c. Il. Farrell J. c.
Fitzpatrick; R. D; Francis, T. B; Glover: T. G.
Grey, C. a. ,9a Grifien Charles :. G. Halpins s:.o c.
Henry. F. Henry, v. Hickox, A. s. Hin, 6: W.
D. R. Keim, W. H. Kent. Thomas W Knox. F.
G. Long, R. T. McAlpin, Richard G. Mccormick.
Norcross Crosby S. Moves. G. H Osborn. B. F.
Osborn. c. A; Page Nathenial Page, U. II. Palm
Peters. Henry J. Raymond, no W Whitelax Reid. Al.
bert p Rchsrdson b s W. H a RsRk1e sa,, G. say Nv
mann Jerome 3 sailsn. 'ahaa ssnel. ' w,ilism liam
s, swinton, R. R =; Sylvester, Benjamin +. Taylor,
Is, y!llsFd e., J. w yossurg F. n Ma,iaz1 Z J!
". Williams. J. c. Wilson. T.. c. wilson J. X.
Young and W. Young
On the opposite tablet are cut the
names of civil war artists. and they
are classified as army artists south
ern" and artists" The names of those
classified as army artists" follow:
J. A. Becker. F. Beard, III. Bepsancon. A.
Berghaus, T. E. H. Bd1Sf1l, s. ssSDavis, F.
Dielman G. G. Ensburg, S. Fox, G. F.: Hillen,
f. B. Hough, J. Z. Laycock, A. McCallunI. W.
H. McComas, f. F. Mullen. Fred Shell W. L.
Sheppard. ]. S. Trevler, g., +. Williams W.
Waud
Those names on the artists tablet
classified as southern" are:
P. w. Alexander. Durant Daponte. James B.
Sener, r. G. Defonlaine, ". Shepardson. d. c.
Jenkins. George ". olney, George Perry and
Henry Watterson.
Those listed simply as artists" are:
NJ. B. Brady, ". T. Crane. F. o. c. Darley,
Henry Mosler. Theodore z. Davis. Frank She'll
Ed. Forbes. J. s. Jewett Alfred Wand. Henry
Love, H. Vizzitelly. Arthur Lumsey. j. f. Tay-
lor, F. H. Mason, Larkin G. Mead and Dave H.
Strother.
The north end of the memorial con-
tains this: ITO the Army Correspond
ents and Artists, 1s6165, Whose Tolls
Cheered the Camps. Thrilled the Fire
side. Educated Provinces of Rustics
Into a Bright Nation of Readers and
Gave Incentive to Narrate Distant
Wars and Explore Dark Lands. Erect