The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-01
POET BANKER WAS
ALWAYS A HERO
Had Capacity for Deeds OF.
Heroism, and Love for
Doing Them.
THIS IS LEARNED In
UNPUBLISHED LETTERS
f.. G. Stedman as a War Cores
pondent, and What He
Accomplished.

In Harpcr's magazine are printer
some biterto unpublished letters OF 'no
late Z. c.. Stedman. They present
view Of the poet banker, which SHOWS
that he had also capacity Tor deeus
of heroism and love for doing them.
July IS, 1861. his diary reads: WY
FIRST battle. Witnessed the Blackburn
Ford affair Under fire from peglhhihs
to end. Helped to right the hrst gun
Came out safe. My telegraphic dlsPatch
beat the other papers
Two days later, while the army et 81.
camped, and reconnoltred Tor ne"
tack, Stedman wrote TO his WHO 'H0
following: .o
1.-THE army moves forward again 10.
night-part OF it, at least, and l an,
| going TO accompany it. AS L sent my
letter TO the World this morning, anu
| have spare half-hour. while nay
horse is feeding, / think ] VIII wrlte
you a word. L have written you se. To
eral times this week, and sehe SEM nae sav
Thursday night, after the battle, 10 Sns
that I was in it throughout. but came
out safe. Hill, Houses assistant goG
there after the fight commenced, hao
one ball whiz by his ear, got 1rient-
ened. gallopcd twenty-five miles s6111
Washington and there reported 9oo
killed, and that the press mad Hsd
the field. No one left but him. MT.
RAYMOND (editor of the New YORK
| Tines) was with me in the hottest
cannonade and was as cool as Gu,
cumber. Ny letters to the World zen
| the whole story, If they have got saieiF
through ! sent one dispatch to WASH
| ington, 10 be forwarded from there py
telegraph, the night of the battle ms
was a column and Il half long, ana wac
so correct that / have not since peen
obliged to alter word, ] am IN great
suspense to know whether 1t got
through. Yesterday, the 18th, sent
n letter giving more details. Today L
have written a long letter about the
nature of the cnemy's defcnces. There.
is great difficulty in getting anythings
TO Washington, and YOU cannot imagine
how worried 7 am about my dispatches,
When YOU see Marble, wish you would
tell him so, and that l am sure my
telegraphic dispatch was big thing,
if it ever reached him.
Viewed Battle.
cit will be some time fear, before
! shall have another such splendid op-
portunity of witnessing a battle. The
| ground was peculiarly favorable for
my observation. My horse was very
restive, throwing ME twice-by the way,
constant saddle practice has made me
a pretty fair horseman-when the
cannonading was going on.
"We move forward, as ] said. to-
night, but I don It think there will be
much fighting, as we only go little
way, probably with view to perna-
nentIy strong position. General Nc
Dowell. [ learn privately, is really
afraid to put our raw troops against
the, enemy g batteries. He fears they
will run. But / go In for grand at
tack from all quarters at once. If my
dispatch got through, show 1t to George
Arnold. ] wish he was out here with
We,
1.-The actual loss in the late engage
ment, no matter what the official re-
ports say, is about twenty-five killed.
thirty wounded and thirty missing. The
trees prevented the carnage from being
greater
From the diary, Sunday, July 81,
"Battle of Bull Run. Got pat l
a m. Rode in advance till battle
opened at 6 a. N. Stayed In it all day
and witnessed with great shame and
Indignation the rout at the close. Saved
colors of Massachusetts Fifth. Had Of
hcer shot on my horse as I tried to
bring him off the field Got to Wash
ington at a. m. Monday
a. gu, says H. II. StOddard.
!, whether Stedman' IS letters exceIIed
tnose OF other correspondents for accu
recy, but they certainly exeelled them
In spirit. '-e-i
Was at Bull Run.
= de was at the first battle of BuII
nun, where the north was ronted aa
we all remember. Other corresnon6ents
sent letters to their papers about it,
out none came from him. ~
Where is hes' his friends asked.
but nobody knew. a'Neo'
Two, or perhaps three, days passed
before he returned to New YorL IT,
ncTt oay there appeared in the WorJo
long and graphic letter about Az
loSt battle which he had w;tnosSod "o
letter which was the town e toII e..
gays Altogether it was the hest s;raIa G,
Mrltten during the whole wary,
IN The letter which Mr.. Painter e. san.
20 1Se1 Ihe Philadelphia Inquirer. .1nIv ou
1861, he says: 'uiy -,
;no the; the enemy appeared is sight, fir
lug Ine,r guns, the balls rain;ga 49, ~
US lnlek; Emerging from the vafJo{i aRon
ne saw the reporter of the World 80
me re standard of the Massanb,,t. WIN
f IN; waving it over him and nleaS;ns, ,,sG..s
~ ior inc men to rally around b;n, lug
=. was In vain; they heedpJ h;,' ou'
;an 9nicer asked the PRIVILEGE nf NJ n;
ing pehind ham, 1t was aranteJ - aiu
ootHre they had gone a hnndreS anu anu
ns; snoo from the thicket strr.,,9 dtus tS
NJ NJ cer IN the head and he raoIas eae
and Sagnman ooii wrapped up the stanaoy nv
afu aft salloped about n mile ahooa
,.ro iaron Warus st succeeded in raIIv,n,o anu