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.

[7] Cope is also noted for commemorative era battlefield administration and designs, including the layout of the 1913 Gettysburg reunion.

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.