June 4, 1861 - June 26, 1865[2] (Sergeant: June 10, 1861; artillery Corporal: April 1862; commissioned April 25, 1864; Capt of Engineers: April 20, 1864)[3]
Rank
Major: February 9, 1865 (Bvt Lt Col: June 26, 1865)[3]
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26
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1861: machinist, Copesville, PA 1893 July: Topographic Engineer[2] Chief of Engineers, GNPC 1st Superintendent, GNMP 1927: oldest US Civil Service employee[4]
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]
^"Adams County". Pennsylvania. National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
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^"Youngstown Vindicator - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
^"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.
^Reed, Charles Wellington; Campbell, Eric A (2000). A Grand Terrible Dramma(Google Books). ISBN 9780823219711. Retrieved 2011-02-14.
^ abcdAnnual 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.
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EmmorCope (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...
national cemetery after being discovered in 1997. Union Gettysburg veteran EmmorCope was detailed to annotate the battlefield's troop positions and his "Map...
replaced the orchard's peach trees in 1974, the orchard's ID tablet by EmmorCope was entered-documented as an historic district contributing structure...
was placed in 1920, and the woods is the site of a youth campground. Cope, Emmor, "McMillan Woods Rifle Pits (Structure number MD15, LCS ID 006988) &...
the Gettysburg Battlefield "The Angle". Historical Marker Database. Cope, Emmor (Bvt Lt Col) (1896), The Angle - Cast Iron Site ID Tablet, United States...
nearby entrance gate to the Gettysburg National Military Park designed by EmmorCope for Grand Central Avenue's north end on the Taneytown Road's west side...
Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2011-06-06. Willoughby Run (1191496) Cope, Emmor (1920), "Spangler Woods - Cast Iron Site ID Tablet] ([http://www.hscl...
Bien & Co. Lith. 1904. Gettysburg Park Commission (Nicholson, John P; Cope, Emmor; Hammond, Schuyler A). "Adams County News" – via Google News Archive...
being awakened in the possibilities of drilling for oil. In 1900, E. J. (Emmor Jerome) Miley sold his fruit holdings and joined with Dabney in leasing...
Publishing Company. pp. 313–314. Retrieved November 4, 2023 – via Archive.org. Cope, Gilbert; Ashmead, Henry Graham, eds. (1904). Historic Homes and Institutions...
Cartography by Gettysburg National Park Commission: Nicholson, John P; Cope, Emmor; Hammond, Schuyler A. New York: Julius Bien & Co. Lith. 1904. {{cite...
news archive). Gettysburg Compiler. July 8, 1870. Retrieved 2013-08-28. Cope, Emmor (1896), "Shultz House – Cast Iron Site ID Tablet", (structure ID 43,...
Cartography by Gettysburg National Park Commission (Nicholson, John P; Cope, Emmor; Hammond, Schuyler A). New York: Julius Bien & Co. Lith. 1904. {{cite...
resume their move to the west. One of Warren's staff officers, Major Emmor B. Cope found Crawford and had him swing to the right to join Kellogg. Since...
architect Nain Singh Rawat (India, 1830–1882), Cartographer and explorer Cope, Emmor B: Gettysburg Battlefield cartographer and first Gettysburg National...
Lith. 1904. – Gettysburg National Park Commission (Nicholson, John P; Cope, Emmor; Hammond, Schuyler A) "Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad". Gettysburg...
Gettysburg National Military Park. John P. Nicholson: 1895–1922 Colonel Emmor B. Cope: 1922–1927 James B. Aumen: 1927–1927 Colonel E. E. Davis: 1927–1932...
Cartography by Gettysburg National Park Commission (Nicholson, John P; Cope, Emmor; Hammond, Schuyler A). New York: Julius Bien & Co. Lith. 1904. "Railroad...
Cartography by Gettysburg National Park Commission (Nicholson, John P; Cope, Emmor; Hammond, Schuyler A). New York: Julius Bien & Co. Lith. 1904. Archived...