Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-02-20

the Richmond authorities refusing
their exchange, declaring that they
should be held during the war as host
ages and for retaliation. Richardson
and Browne escaped from the Confed
crate prison at Salisbury North Car
DINA, on the night of December is,
1864, in company with William Z.
Davis, clerk of the Ohio 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, fiji
teen miles from Knoxville, Tenn.
l.. A. Hendrick and George II. Hart
were captured by Mosby in November,
1868, and confined in Castle Thunder,
Richmond where they enjoyed the
company Of their conferes, Solomon
T. Bulky, Ravenwood and Schloss.
Anderson and GatcheIl, two other war
correspondents, and j. I'll. NCsburgh,
who was taken prisoner in May, 1863
on the Rappahannock, were detained
as prisoners in other parts of the Con-
federacy. During General Banks cam
paign in the Valley oil Virginia, George
w Clarke another correspondent, fell
into the hands Of the Confederates at
w IhNnCoIcl, Jul eNIb1A a h2ihCi oN'ONA
ton was released by Stonewall Jack
son. j. c. Fitzpatrick, S. Cadwallader
and L. L. Crounse were captured by
Mosby's guerrillas near Fredericks-
burg. while striving to reach Wash
ington with full reports Of the battles
in the Wilderness, also complete lists
of the killed and wounded. Their pa
pers were taken from them, but they
cir onA
having reached Washington, wrote
their journals detailed accounts Of the
battles they had witnessed from mem
DRY.
General John Morgan captured Will
liam f. G.. Shanks and Edwin ID. West
fall in the Southwest, and not only
confiscated their equipments ana
Clothes but also seized their money
and iewelry William Young, q corr
respondent with the Army Of the Poto-
mae. was captured by General Stuart,
of the Confederate Cavalry. but man
aged to escape and with his usual en-
ergv brought away with him full list
If the Federal officers captured at
Gettysburg About the same tlme,
while r. NJ Cook was en- route from
Baltimore to the army he was captur-
cd bv a band of five Confederate cav
alrvmen near Cookestown. Wmie the
Confederates were searching him for
nannrs Thos II Knox, afterwards
agent Of the Western Press Assocla-
tion and George IN. Hosmer. two 9th
or war correspondents, made a dash at
tbe cava!rvmen. drove them off in the
direction of Westminster, and all
threa entered Frederick in safety and
proceeded to their positions IN front
Westfall fell into the hands Of Nor
cans cavalry. who also fancied his
yoluablas and money; John a. Brady.
lost in canebrake. turned up as ell
tor in Mobile.
II was not an uncommon thing for
the army correspondents TO lend edec-
five service to the commanding gen
erals at very critical moments, when
ope gallant act might turn the tide of
hattie A few incidents in the career
of one of these gentlemen, VINO had
bean with General Thomas through
ali his brilliant battles wlli Illustrate
CaDtain David F. Conyngham dlu such
SIGNAL service at the battle Of hesaca
by carving dispatches under WIN
zinc fire across the field from General
sehC6eld to General judah. ana SUD
seauently guiding division into ae-
+ion at n critical moment, that ne was
rre congratulated on bis gal-
iantry by General schoheid ana ri
ceived a letter OF thanks from General
Judah .,;ut,4t,- :,
Conyngham was wounded silghuy IN
This fight and if he had not been an
army correspondent and had not car
Red his budget Of news IN portfolio
inside his vest, which turned the bull
let. he would not have been able TO
write his graphic accounts Of the bat
lies of Chattanooga. Franklin and
Nashville Riding TO the front IN an
other action, he was accosted by a