The record-union., 1896-09-27

or the corps of correspondents VINO 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 MS
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 cor
respondents, was promoted to Major
and Assistant Adjutant-General on
General Winfield S. Hancock's stair.
While acting as correspondent he
was captured in the Queen of the west,
and confined for fourteen months in a
Texas Confederate prison, ten days OF
which was in a dungeon into when not
one ray of light found it's way, and IN
which he had for companions five des-
perate murderers, two of whom were
negroes. He was wounded in the arm
by shell at the battle of SpottSylvanla
Courthouse, May - 1868, but with
characteristic pluck he continued to
take notes in the thickest of the ngnt
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
Vicksburg, on the night of May 8, 1865,
after their boat had been exploded and
burned by the Confederate batteries. and
half Of the persons on the expedition
killed or wounded. They were confined
in seven different Confederate prisons.
the Richmond authorities refusing their
exchange, declaring that they should be
held during the war as hostages and for
retaliation. Richardson and Davis eS-
capped from the Confederate prison at
Salisbury, N. c., on the night of De-
cember Is, 1864 in company with Will
lam E. Davis, correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Gazette" and clerk of the Ohio
State Senate. They travelled $40 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. Hendrck and George H. Hart
We're captured by Mosby in November,
1863, and confined in Castle Thunder.
Richmond, where they enjoyed the COM
pany of their confreres, Solomon T.
Bulky. Ravenwood and Schloss.
Messrs. Anderson and Gatchell, two
other war correspondents, and J. III.
Vosburgh, who was taken prisoner in
May, 1868, on the Rappahannock, were
detained as prisoners in other parts of
the Confederacy. During General
Banks campaign in the valley of Vir-
ginia, George w. Clarke, another CORE
spondent, fell into the hands of the
|Confederates at Winchester, but after a
short detention was released by Stone
wall Jackson. J. c. Fitzpatrick and S.
Cadwallader of the Herald" and l.. L.
Crounse of the Times" We're captured
by Mosby's guerrillas near Fredericks-
burg, while while striving to reach
Washington with full reports of the
battle of the Wilderness, also complete
lists of the killed and wounded Their
papers were taken from them, but they
succeeded in making their escape, and
having reached Washington, wrote
their journals detailed accounts Of the
battles they had witnessed from mem
ory. General John Morgan captured
William F. G.. Shanks and Edwin d.
Westfall in the Southwest, and not only
confscated their equipments, but also
seized their money and jewelry. VIM.
Young, correspondent with the Army OF
the Potomac, was captured by General
Stuart of the Confederate cavalry, bu.
managed to escape, and with his usual
energy brought away with him a full
list of the Federal officers captur ed at
Gettysburg. About the same time.
while T. NJ. Cook was en- route from
Baltimore to the army, he was captured
by band Of five Confederate cavalry
men, near CokeStown. While the Con-
federates were searching Mr.. Cook for
papers, Thomas w. Knox, aftcrward
agent of the Western Press Association,
and George w. Hosmer, two other war
correspondents, made a dash at the
cavalrymen, drove them off into the di-
rection of Westminster and all three
entered Fredericksburg in safety and
proceeded to their positions in the
front. Skestfall fell into the hands of
valuables and money; John A. Brady,
lost in a canebrake, turned UP as editor
in Mobile.
CARRYING A DISPATCH UNDER
FIRE.
1t was not an uncommon thing for
TIE army correspondents to lend effect
i've service to the commanding Generals
at very critical moments, when one
gallant act might turn the tide of the
battle. A few incidents in the career
of one of these gentlemen who had been
with General Thomas through all his
brilliant battles, will illustrate. Captain
David p. Conyngham did such signal
service at the battle of Resaca by car
rying dispatches under a withering fire
across the field from General Schofield
to General judah, and subsequently
guiding a division into action at crit
ical moment, that he was personally
congratulated on his gallantry by Gen
eral Schofeld, and received the follow
ing letter of thanks from General Ju-
dah:
Cedar Springs (Ga.), May Is, 1864.
Captain d. 2. Conyngham, Acting
A. d. C.-Captain: 1 cannot disrupt the
associations that bind me to my
personal staff without thanking you
for the many services you have rendered
me- The gallant manner in which you
conveyed my orders under heavy fire
during the fearful ordeal to WHICH my
division was subjected on the 14th inst.
not only commands my acknowledg-
ment and admiration, but attests my
long confirmed opinion that the Irish
soldier is the nonpareil of a soldier.
With the best wishes of your chief for
your future success and welfare, / am,