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

fields. woods, the position of troops by
regiments and the entire lines of battle
of the contending armies.
We have preserved the following list
of army and navy correspondents in
the field during the war. nearly all Of
whom were constantly and actively en-
gagged in furnishing war news to their
respective journals. Some of these
men became rs well known through
their pen names as any general in
either army, and when peace came they
found little difficulty in sliding into
snug berths in the editorial rooms, for
which some of them were not half so
well fitted. In order to develop to the
highest point the literary ambition of
the corps of correspondents who were
trained in the army, their respective
journals published their names at the
heads of the letters which they for
warded from the armies. In this way
they established intimate personal re-
lations with the public, and they made
the fullest use Of their opportunities to
win regulations for themselves. Some
of them contributed to the literature of
the country some of it's best and most
esteemed writer's, and are the real his
torians of the war, for without their
army correspondence the true history
of the war cannot be written.
THE MEN AND THEIR DEEDS.
Finley Anderson, one of the CORE
spondents, was promoted to major and
assistant adjutant general on General
Winfield Hancock's staff. While act
ing as correspondent he was captured
on the Queen of the West" and con-
fined for fourteen months in a Texas
Confederate prison, ten days of which
was in a dungeon into which not one
ray of light found its way. and in which
he had for companions five desperate
murderers, two of whom were negroes.
He was wounded in the arm by shell
at the battle of Spottsylvania court
house, May y, 1868, but with charac-
teristic pluck he continued to take
notes in the thickest of the fight, and
pushed on to Washington, where he
dictated his dispatches in time for the
next days issue of his New York pa
per Albert D. Richardson and Junius
Henri Brown of the New York Tri-
bune and Colburn of the World, were
captured while floating on bales of hay
in the Mississippi river opposite Vicks-
burg, on the night of Mag 3, 1868, after
their boat had been exploded and burn
ed by the Confederate batteries, and
half the persons on the expedition
killed or wounded. They were confined
in seven different prisons. the Rich
mond authorities refusing their eX-
change. declaring that they should be
held during the war as hostages and
for retaliation. Richardson and Davis
escaped from the Confederate prison at
Salisbury, North Carolina on the night
OF December Is. 1854, in company with
William Z. Davis, correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette, and clerk of the
Ohio senate They Travelled three hun
dred and forty miles through marshes,
brush and forest and over mountains
in the snow at the peril Of their lives
before reaching the Union lines fifteen
miles from Knoxville, Tenn.
L. A. Hendrick and George H. Hart
were captured by Mosby in November
1863, and confined in Castle Thunder
Richmond, where they enjoyed the
company Of their confreres, Solomon
7. Bulky, Ravenwood and Schloss. /
Messrs. Anderson and Gatchell two
other war correspondents and j. H /
Nosburgh. who was taken prisoner in !
May, 1853, on the fRappahanock, were
detained as prisoners in other parts of
the Confederacy. During General
Banks campaign IN the valley of Vir-
GINA, George W. Clarke, another cor
respondent, fell into the hands of the |
at Winchester. but after
a short detention was released by I
Stonewall Jackson. J. c. Fitzpatrick /
and S. Cadwallader of the Herald and /
L. L. Crounse of the Times, were cap I
tured by Mosby's guerillas near Fred /
ricksburg, while striving to reach /
Washington with full reports of the
battles in the Wilderness, also com
plete lists of the killed and wounded. /
Their papers were taken from them,
but they succeeded in making their es- /
cape, and, having reached Washington,
wrote their journals detailed accounts
Of the battles they had witnessed from
memory. General John Morgan cap
tured William F. G. Shanks and Edwin
D. Westfall. in the southwest, and not
only confiscated their equipments and /
clothes. but also seized their money
and jewelry. William Young, a CORE
spondent with the Army of Potomac,
was CAPTURED by General Stuart of
the Confederate cavalry, but managed
to escape, and with his usual energy
brought away with him a full list of
the federal officers captured at Gettys.
burg About the same time, while T.
NJ. Cook was en- route from Baltimore
to the army he was canturad nv a hand