The age-herald., 1898-01-23

| equipments and clothes, but also seized 1 their money and jewelry. William Young. | a correspondent with the Army of the l Potomac, was captured by Gen. Stuart of | the confederate cavalry, but managed to 1 escape, and with his usual energy, brought | away with him full list of the federal | officers captured at Gettysburg. About | the same time, while T. M. Cook was en 1 route from Baltimore to the affray, he 1 was captured by band of five confeder- | ate cavalrymen near Cookestown. While l the confederates were searching him for | papers, Thomas K. Knox, afterwards agent of the Western Press association, and George ". Hosmer, two other war correspondents, made dash at the caval- l rymen, drove them off in the direction of Westminster, and all three entered Fred l erick in safety and proceeded to their | positions in front Westfall fell into the hands of Morgan's cavalry, who also fam l cied his valuables and money; John A. | Brady, lost in a canebrake, turned up as | editor in Mobile
 It was not an uncommon thing for the | army correspondents to lend effective ser- vice to the commanding generals at very critical moments, when one gallant act
 might turn the tide of battle. A few incl dents in the career of one of these gentle-
 men, who had been with Gen. Thomas through all his brilliant battles, will illus trate Capt. David P Conyngham did such signal service at the battle of Re- saca by carrying dispatches under with ering fire across the field from Gen. Scho- field to Gen. Judah, and subsequently guiding division into action at critical moment that he was personally congratu- lated on his gallantry by Gen. Schofield and received a letter of thanks from Gen. Judah.
 Conyngham was wounded slightly in this | fight, and if he had not been an army cor respondent and had not carried his budget of news in a portfolio inside his vest, which turned the bullet he would not have been able to write his graphic &C., ! counts of the battles of Chattanooga,
 Franklin and Nashville. Riding in the front in another action, he was accosted by a general, who, seeing him in civilians
 dress, asked who he was. Upon being in- formed, the officer remarked: "l don't think newspaper correspondents will go far in here' They were soon in a hot
 fire, and the general fell badly wounded,
 when the correspondent said: You 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 time in the trenches with his musket though rendered a command. Instances might be multiplied of this kind in the case of this one correspondent alone, He was complimented on the field of Cham cellorsville--his first great battle-by Gen. Meagher for his services as volunteer aid,
 and one of his employers horses shot un-
 der him at Bristow Station.
 B. S. Osborn a leading naval corre- spondent, was twenty-seven times under fire, and was seriously wounded seven times by bolts and concussionS while board the Montauk and Hartford. He for merly commanded a vessel in the Buenos Ayres navy, and on account of his expe- rience in naval warfare, was ever welcome
 on board the fiagships of Admirals Dupont,
 Farragut and Porter. His letters from the Montauk while lying before Fort McAl- lister in the Ogeechee river, were repub-
 lished in the official papers of Russia,
 Denmark Sweden and Prussia. When
 Farragut the forts at New Orleans,
 he was the signal officer in the rigging
 with him, and was specially honored by
 Farragut by being permitted to plant the first Union flag on the west bank of the Mississippi above New Orleans.
 A. K. Fulton was engineer on Ad-
 mral Farragut's flagship, the Hartford, and furnished the American with the ear- Hest, fullest. and most graphic descriptions of all naval engagements fought by the great commander at various times on the Wabash, Nahant, Bibb, Marblehead, Wee hawken, Montauk, Ericsson and other ves- sells of the navy, and during the siege of Charleston and the attack on Fort Sum- ter in April, 1863, he witnessed the fight, and his accounts of the engagement at tracted widespread attention and resulted in a controversy between himself. Ad- miral Dupont and the navy department Thomas sM Cook sat afloat the flag ship of Admiral Porter pencil and book
 in hand. and watched the bombardment of
 Fort Fisher: George w. Hosmer, in the
 hottest of the great battle of Gettysburg,
 was full of fire and facts in his neat and accurate accounts of that decisive con-
 fict of the war, which was the first &C.,
 count of that great victory Charles H. Farrel dstanced all his competitors in his [ account of the battle of Fair Oaks; Will liam H. Steiner shivered out on picket days and nights for the last Confederate newspaper; Ashley and s. M. Carpenter
 shared with the old army of the Potomac it's glory and repulses Thomas W. Knox,
 init Sigel" in Missouri, described the brilliant battle of Pea Ridge. Space is insufficient to mention the hundreds of others-brave men all-who in the dis
 charge of their duty witnessed the blood
 jest battles of the war to tell the tale.
 Many of them died in the telling.