Emmor Cope (1834-1927) was an American Civil War officer of the Union Army noted for the "Map of the Battlefield of Gettysburg from the original survey made August to October, 1863",[5] which he researched by horseback as a sergeant[6] after being ordered back to Gettysburg by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade.[7] Cope is also noted for commemorative era battlefield administration and designs, including the layout of the 1913 Gettysburg reunion. Cope had enlisted as a Private of Company A,[8][2] (First Pennsylvania Reserves),[9] temporarily detached to Battery C, 5th U.S. Artillery,[3] and mustered out as a V Corps aide-de-camp of Maj Gen Gouverneur K. Warren.
On July 17, 1893,[10] Cope was appointed the Topographical Engineer of the Gettysburg National Park Commission[11] (established for "ascertaining the extent of... the trolley")[12] and oversaw the 1893-5 battlefield survey[13] with benchmark at the Gettysburg center square.[10]: 7 By 1904,[10]: 103 Cope was the first park superintendent, and, after the commission became defunct in March 1922 when the last commissioner died, became the battlefield head[2] through the remainder of the commemorative era of the Gettysburg National Military Park.
Cope's designs include structures (e.g., the original park "gateway"),[14][2] markers (1908 GNMP bronze tablet/granite monolith),[15] buildings (the 1903 Roller and Storage Building),[16] roads (Cross, Brooke, and De Trobriand avenues),[17] and the observation tower at Gettysburg and Valley Forge. He oversaw the development of post-war maps drawn by GNPC cartographer Schuyler A. Hammond, as well as a 14 ft (4.3 m) wooden relief map of the battlefield by J. C. Wierman for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition[10]: 98 (on display at the Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center).
Emmor Cope is buried with his wife along the outside of the Gettysburg National Cemetery fence near the New York State Memorial,[18] and had a daughter and son: Jean Wible[19] and John B. Cope (1877-1903).[20]
Cope's 1996 biography is If You Seek His Monument- Look Around: E.B. Cope and the Gettysburg National Military Park.[21]
Designs
Over 40 historic district contributing structures were designed by Emmor Cope, including:
- Observation towers at five Gettysburg locations beginning with the 1895 Big Round Top Observation Tower and the 1906 Valley Forge Observation Tower
- c. 1896 Gettysburg National Military Park "gateway at the entrance to Hancock avenue on the Taneytown road"[2]
- 35 cast iron site ID tablets ("guide" tablets)[22]
- 1909 US Regulars monument[23][2]
References
- ^ "Adams County". Pennsylvania. National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Col. E. B. Cope Dies Suddenly Saturday Evening; Ill 8 Months". Gettysburg Times. May 30, 1927. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
designed the gateway at the entrance to Hancock avenue on the Taneytown road and the monument commemorating the regular army
- ^ a b c Hannum, Curtis H (1911), Genealogy of the Hannum Family..., West Chester, Pennsylvania
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- ^ "The Exhibit to Worlds Fair" (Google News Archive). Gettysburg Compiler. March 30, 1904. Retrieved 2011-05-03.
- ^ Gettysburg Battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1863 (PDF) (Map). A Civil War Watercolor Map Series. McElfresh Map Company. 1994. ISBN 978-1-885294-33-3. Retrieved 2011-02-14.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "1911 Report". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
- ^ "30th Pennsylvania Infantry Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org.
- ^ Reed, Charles Wellington; Campbell, Eric A (2000). A Grand Terrible Dramma (Google Books). ISBN 9780823219711. Retrieved 2011-02-14.
- ^ a b c d Annual Reports of the Gettysburg National Military Park Commission (Report). Government Printing Office. 1905. Retrieved 2011-02-14.
14 feet long by 10 1/2 feet wide, and... 9 feet 2 1/3 inches by 12 feet 8 inches.
- ^ "Credit for Battlefield Here Goes to Nicholson and Cope; Both Veterans" (Google News Archive). Star and Sentinel. July 9, 1938. Retrieved 2011-02-12.
The [Gettysburg National Park] commission ceased to exist on the death of Colonel Nicholson.
- ^ "The Invasion of Gettysburg" (PDF). The New York Times. June 4, 1893. Retrieved 2011-05-03.
- ^ "1893-5 battlefield survey". Archived from the original on 2012-09-15. Retrieved 2011-05-03.
- ^ Gettysburg, Mailing Address: 1195 Baltimore Pike; Us, PA 17325 Phone:334-1124 Contact. "Battlefield Rehabilitation at Gettysburg - Gettysburg National Military Park (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Gettysburg National Military Park Marker" (HMdb.org webpage for marker 14520). War Department. 1908. Retrieved 2011-02-08. (NPS webpage, MN508) Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Roller and Storage Building". List of Classified Structures, p. 13. National Park Service. Archived from the original on 2012-09-15. Retrieved 2011-05-03.
1 story U-shaped flat-slope hot-tar roof. Projecting center on N elev. w/ 2 wd arched garage bay openings framing single entry, enframed w/ brick banding. Pronounced wdw bays w/ single lights in ea bay. Topped w/ corbelled cornice. Overall 73'x49'.
- ^ "Cross, Brooke, and De Trobriand avenues". Archived from the original on 2012-09-15. Retrieved 2011-05-03.
- ^ "New York State Memorial Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org.
- ^ "New Oxford Item - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ^ "The Star and Sentinel - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ^ "schaefer "If You Seek His Monument" - Google Search". www.google.com.
- ^ "1903 Report". Archived from the original on 2011-08-06. Retrieved 2011-11-24.
- ^ 1909 US Regulars monument
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