George Alfred Townsend (1841-1914) was a correspondent during the American Civil War who wrote under the pen name "Gath." His works include: The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth (1865), Campaigns of a Non-Combatant and His Romaunt Abroad During the War (1866), New Washington (1874), Bohemian Days (1880), Tales of the Chesapeake (1880), The Entailed Hat; or, Patty Cannon's Times (1884), Katy of Catoctin; or, The Chain-Breakers (1886), Mrs Reynolds and Hamilton (1890), Columbus in Love (1893), Poems of Men and Events (1899) and Poems of the Delaware Peninsula (1911).