The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-05-25

| VI NllIlOut lstHf
or honors, they not infrequently played
the double part of soldier and civilian
| with credit to themselves and the pro
fession to which they belonged. They
witnessed every phase of the struggle:
for the Union, from the secession OF
South Carolina to its restoration, from
the fall of Sumter to the fall of For
Griffin at Sabine Pass, from the mur
der of Ladd and Whitney by the mol
in Baltimore on April 10, 1861, to the
assassination of President Lincoln OF
April ii, 1865. They accompanied oul
| armies and fleets and accurately re
corded the stirring feats of arms anG
the noble examples of valor, patriotism
and self-devotiOn with which oul
brave soldiers and sailors illuminated
the history of the war.
At the outbreak of the war the lead
ing newspapers placed a corps of wal
| correspondents in the field. They were
fitted out with a horse and equipments
| field glass, waterproof sabretache
cot, blankets and bedding. The instruc'
tions were brief, but comprehensive
They were to obtain the most accurate
information by personal observation
and forward it with the utmost dis
| patch, labor or danger.
Some of these men became as vel
known through their pen-names as any
| general in either army, and when peace
came they found little difficulty in slid
| ing into snug berths in the editorial
rooms, for which some of them We're
| not half so well fitted. In order to de-
velOp to the highest point the literary
ambition of the corps of correspond
ents who were trained in the army
their respective jurnals published their
names ut the heads of the letters which
they forwarded from the armies. In
this way they established intimate per-
sonal relations with the public. and
they made the fullest use of their op-
portunities to win regulations for them
selves. Some of them contributed to
fhe literature of the country some of
its best and most esteemed writers and
are the real historians of the war, for
without their army correspondence the
true history of the war cannot be writ
ten.
Finley Anderson, one of the CORE
spondents, was promoted to major and
assistant adjutant general on General
Winfield S. Hancock's staff. While
acting as correspondent he was cap
tured on the Queen of the West. and
confined for fourteen months in a Texas
Confederate prison, ten days of which
were 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 a shell
at the battle of Spottsylvania Court
House, May -, 1868, but with charac-
teristic pluck he continued to take
notes in the thickest of the fight and
pushed on to Washington, where he die
tated his dispatches in time for the
next days issue of the paper.
Albert d. Richardson and Junius
Henri Browne were captured while
floating on the bales of hay in the Mis-
sissippi River. opposite Vicksburg, on
the night of May 3, 1868, after their
boat had been exploded and burned by
the Confederate batteries. and half the
persons on the expedition killed or
wounded. They We're confined in seven
different Confederate 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 Browne
escaped from the Confederate prison at
Salisbury, n. c., on the night of Dec.
IS, 1864, In company with William e.
Davis, Clerk Of the Ohio Sena'e. 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 KOnXville, 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
T. Bulky, Ravenwood and Schloss. An
derson and Gatchell, two other war
correspondents. and ]. II. Vosburgh.
who was taken prisoner in May, 1863,
on the RappahannOck, were detained
as prisoners in other parts of the Con
federacy. During General Banks
campaign in the Valley of Virginia
George w. Clarke, another correspond
ent. fell into the hands of the Confed-
crates at Winchester, but after n short
detention was released by Stonewall
Jackson. J. G. Fitzpatrick, S. Cadwal-
lader and l.. l.. Crounse were captured
by Mosby's guerrillas near Fredericks-
burg, while striving to reach Washing
ton with full reports of the battles in
the Wilderness, also complete lists of
the killed and wounded. Their papers
were taken from them, but they sue
ceeded i'm 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 Will
lam +. G.. Shanks and Edwin ID. West
fall in the Southwest, and not only con-
fiscated their equipments and clothes,
but also seized their money and jewel
ry. William Young, n correspondent
with the Army of the Potomac, was
captured by General Stuart, of the Con-
federate cavalry, but managed to es-
cape, and with his usual energy
brought away with him full list of
the Federal officers captured at Gettys-
burg. About the same time, while L.
NJ Cook was en- route from Baltimore
to the army, he was captured by band
of five Confederate cavalrymen near
Cookestown. While the COnfederates
were searching him for papers, Thos.
X Knox. afterwards agent of the
Western Press Association. and George
w. Hosmer, two other war correspond
ents, made a dash at the cavalrymen,
drove them off in the direction of West
minister, and all three entered Freder-