Papers, 1883-1888.

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Papers, 1883-1888.

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Letters to George Alfred Townsend (1841-1914), author and journalist, requesting a biographical sketch and assistance in getting an article published; and a letter from Stewart Lyndon Woodford (1835-1913), first Union military commander of Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia, explaining that he had been involved in prisoner exchange during the Civil War.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Townsend, George Alfred, 1841-1914

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Townsend was a famous Civil War correspondent who wrote under the pen name "Gath," and who later constructed an elaboraate country estate at Gathland or Gapland at Crampton's Gap in South Mountain northwest of Washington. This was the site of a battle that marked the beginning of the Antietam campaign. In 1896, Townsend built the Army Correspondents' Memorial arch on his property to commemorate the service of Civil War correspondents. The site is now a park. From the description of A...