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

General, who, seeing him in civilian $
dress, asked who he was. Upon being
Informed, the officer remarked: 1
don't think newspaper correspondents
will go far in here" They were soon
in hot fire, and the general fell bad
ly wounded, when the correspondent
said: You see, sir, that correspond
ents 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 MS
musket, though rendered a command.
Instances might be multiplied of this
kind in the case of this one CORE
spendent alone. He was compllmented
on the field of Charlottesville
first great battle-by Gen. Meagher
for his services as volunteer aid, ana
had one Of his employers horses Shot
under him at Bristow Station.
b. S. Osborn, leading naval cor
respondent, was tWenty-seven times
under fire and was seriously wounded
seven times by bolts and conclusions
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 never welcome on
board the fagships of Admirals Du-
pont, Farragut and Porter. His letters
from the Montauk, when lying before
Fort McAllister, in the Ogeeehee river,
were republished in the official papers
Of Russia Denmark, Sweden and Prus-
STA. When Farragut ran the forts at
New Orleans, he was the signal officer
in the rigging with him and was spe-
cially 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 an engineer on
Admiral Farragut's flagship, the Hart
ford, and furnished the American
with the earliest, fullest and most
graphic descriptions of all naval en-
gagements fought by the great COM
mander at various times on the Wa
bash. Nahant. Bib, Marblehead, Wee
hawken, Montauk, Ericsson and other
vessels Of the navy, and during the
siege of Charleston and the attack
on Fort Sumpter in April, 1863 he
witnessed the fight; and his accounts
Of the engagement attracted wide
spread attention and resulted in
controversy between himself, Admiral
Dupont and the Navy Department.
Thomas NJ. Cook sat ailoat on the
flagship of Admiral Porter, pencil and
book in hand and watched the bonn
bardment 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 a.
counts of that decisive conflict of the
war. which was the first account Of
that great victory Charles H. Farrell
distanced all his competitors in his ac-
count of the battle of Fair Oaks; VIM
! H. Stiner shivered out on picket, days
and nights, for the last Confederate
newspaper; Ashley and S. NJ. Carpen-
! ter shared with the old Army of the
Potomac its glory and repulses; Thos.
W. Knox, init Sigel' in Missouri, de-
scribed the brilliant battle of Pea.
Ridge. Space is insufficient to men
ton the hundreds of others-trave
men all, who in the earnest discharge
of their duty witnessed the bloodicgr
| battles of the war to tell the tale.
Many Of them died in the telling.