The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-02

the bullet, he would not have been able
to write his graphic accounts OF the
battles of Chattanooga, Franklin and
Nashville. Riding to the front in an
other action, he was occosted by the gen
eral who, seeing him in civilians dress,
asked who he was. Upon being inform
ed the officer remarked: Il don't think
newspaper correspondents will go lar
in here'* They were soon in hot
fire and the general fell, badly wound
ed, when the correspondent said Y gu
see, sir, that correspondents go farther
than generals here and quietly rode TO
the front in search of news. When Hood
Threatened Chattanooga, Conyngham
volunteered his services, and at the
battle of Nashville fought for a time in
the trenches with his musket, though
rendered command. We might null
tiply instances of this kind in the case
of this one correspondent alone. He
was complimented on the field of Chan
celorsville-his first great battle-by
General Meagher for his services as
volunteer aid, and had one of his en-
ployer's horses shot under him at Bris-
ton station.
NAVAL CORRESPONDENT
B. S. Osborn, the New York Herald
principal naval correspondent, was q
times under fire, and was seriously
wounded seven times by bolts and con-
cussions while on board the Montauk
and Hartford. He formerly commanded
a vessel in the Buenos Ayres navy and
on account of his experience in naval
warfare was ever welcome on board
the fiagships of Admiral Dupont, Far
ragut and Porter. His letters from the
Montauk. when lying before Fort Nc
Allister in the Ogeechee river, were re-
published in the official papers of Rus
STA. Denmark, Sweden and Prussia.
When Farragut ran the forts at New
Orleans, he was The signal officer in
the rigging with him and was specially
honored by Farragut, by being permit
ted tc plant the first Union flag on the
west bank of the Mississippi above New
Orleans. A K Fulton the son of G.
C. Fulton, the proprietor of the Balti-
more American, was an engineer on
Admiral Farraguts flagship the Hart
ford, and furnished the American with
the earliest, fullest and most graphic
descriptions of all the naval engage
ments fought by the great commander
at various times on the Wabash, Ma
haut, Bibb, Marblehead Weehawken,
Montauk, Ericsson, and other vessels
of the navy, and during the siege OF
Charleston in April, 1868, he witnessed
the fight. and his accounts of the en-
gagement attracted widespread atten-
ton and resulted in a controversy be-
tween himself, Admiral Dupont and
the navy department.
Thomas NJ. Cook, afterwards editor
of the Wilmington Herald, sat af1oat on
the flagship of Admiral Porter, pencil
and book in hand, and watched the
Of ich
w. Hosmer, in the hottest Of the great
battle of Gettysburg, was full of fire
and facts in his neat and accurate ac-
count of that decisive conflict of the
war, which was the first account of the
great victory; Charles H. Farrell dis
tanced all his competitors in his ac-
count of the battle of Fair Oaks; Will |
liam H. Stiner Shivered out on picket
day and night, for the last Confederate |
Ashley and S. M. Carpenter
shared with the old army of the Po-
tomac its glory and repulses; Thomas
W. Knox, "SigeP' in Missouri, describ- /
ed the brilliant battle of Pea Ridge; /
Frank K. Chapman, afterwards secre- /
tary of the board of trade at Cairo, |
looked after maps and plans all along |
the lines in the neighborhood of Cairo. /
William Swinton of the New York Times
Manassas. Charlottesville and Freder- t
cksburg, gave graphic pictures of des- I
perately fought battles which he after I
wards embodied in book form; L. A. I
Hendrick the indefatigable, always had I
1 description of a battle; De Beverly !
R. Keim bivoucked with the lamented (
and was always mild and
mindful of his duties to the press and
The public; Joseph McCullagh, Mack
If the Cincinnati Commercial, who is
low editor of the ST. Louis Globe
Democrat, escaped death on a cotton
bale by leaving the Queen of the West
when she was captured; Mr.. Bodman
IF the Chicago Tribune escaped at the
same time in skiff S. B. Black served
n the Potomac dotilla and was killed
0y the Confederate batteries at Matthias
Point, June 81, 1851.
A NOTABLE LIST.
We have not the space to mention the