Reporting the War:
Reenacting as a Civil War Correspondent

ADVANCES IN ANTEBELLUM JOURNALISM 

NEARLY 500 CORRESPONDENTS COVERED THE CIVIL WAR (ROUGHLY 350 FOR THE NORTH AND 150 FOR THE SOUTH), PUBLISHING MORE THAN 100 MILLION WORDS, NEARLY 50,000 A DAY, REVOLUTIONIZING JOURNALISM IN AMERICA AND THE WORLD.

 

CIVIL WAR CORRESPONDENTS

A partial roster of the north‘s 
“bohemian Brigade,”
1861-1865 

CAPITALIZED NAMES were Editors or Publishers
Italicized Names were Special Artists
 

Boston Journal
 Benjamin  Poore
Charles Coffin
Chicago Tribune
JOSEPH MEDILL
T. Herbert Whipple
Ralph Kaw
 Llewellyn Curry
A. H. Bodman
Richard J. Hinton
Charles Ray
J. A. Austen
Irving  Carson (killed at Shiloh 1862)
 

Cincinnati Daily Gazette
 James Allen Davis (1861-1862)
Joseph Glenn
Joseph B.  McCullagh
Whitelaw  Reid
William E. Davis
W. S. Furray

Frank Leslie’s Illustrated
 FRANK A. LESLIE
William Waud
Eugene Benson
Joseph Becker
Edwin Forbes
F. C. H. Bonwill
E. S. Hall
George Law
Frank H. Schell
Henry C. Lovie

Harper’s Weekly: A Journal of Civilization
 Winslow Homer
Theodore R. Davis
Henry Mosler
Alfred R. Waud
F. Meyer
George William Curtis
James Allen Davis (1862-1865; fictitious)
 

Missouri Republican
Lucien Barnes

New York Evening Post
Richard C. McCormick
Charles Nordhoff
George W. Nichols

New York Herald
JAMES G. BENNETT
Stephen R. Fiske
Henry Villard
William B. Shaw
Thomas W. Knox
Sylvanus Cadwallader
Frederic Hudson
Finley Anderson
James Nye Ashley
Solomon T. Bulkley
Frank Chapman
Nathaniel Davidson
J. P. Dunn
Edwin F. DeNyse
Henry M. Flint
Charles H. Farrell
James C. Fitzpatrick
Charles H. Hannam
G. W. Clarke
John A. Brady
L. W. Buckingham
Hiram Calkins
S. M. Carpenter
Charles H. Graffan
Leonard A. Hendrick
George W. Hosmer
Malcolm Ives
Randolph Keim
William H. Merriam
Galen H. Osborne
William F.G. Shanks
Oscar G. Sawyer
George Alfred Townsend
J. H. Vosburgh
 Henry Wikoff
Theodore C. Wilson

New York Illustrated News
 Thomas Nast
Arthur Lumley
F. H. Bellew


New York Times
HENRY J. RAYMOND
George Forrester Williams
George Salter
Fitz-James O’Brien
Charles H. Webb
Joseph Howard, Jr.
Charles L. Brace
Ben C. Truman
Franc Wilkie
William Conant Church
Frank Henry
James M. Winchell
Elias Smith
William Swinton
E. A. Paul
Henry J. Winser

New  York Tribune   
HORACE GREELEY
John F. Cleveland
J. B. Chadwick
Edmund C.  Stedman
Thomas B.  Aldrich
Albert D.  Richardson
(ALBERT DEANE RICHARDSON of the New York Tribune was captured with two other correspondents near Vicksburg in 1863 and held in Confederate prisons in Virginia and North Carolina until he and his companions made a dramatic escape late in 1864, traversing miles of snowstorms and guerrilla-infested countryside to reach the safety of Union lines in Knoxville, Tennessee.)
Charles A. Dana
Samuel Wilkeson
George Ripley
George Bowerem
A. Homer  Byington
John Davenport
Junius Browne
Charles D. Brigham
Sydney Howard Gay
Charles Congdon
Thomas Butler Gunn
James E.  Harvey
Fitz Henry Warren
William A. Croffut
Adams Sherman Hill
Edward H.  House
James B.  Hammond
T. C. Grey
John E. Hayes
Arthur Henry
E. H. Jenny
William Kent
Melville  D. Landon
D. J. Kinney
Francis C. Long
John L. McKenna
J. Warren Newcombe
John Noyes
Nathaniel Paige
Charles Anderson Page
H. O. Olcott
Franklin  J. Ottarson
James Shepherd Pike
William S. Robinson
T. A. Post
James Redpath
Samuel R.  Weed
Henry E.  Wing


New York World
MANTON MARBLE
Beverly S. Osbon
George W. Adams
David Croly
John T. Quigg

Philadelphia Inquirer
Henry Bentley
Edward Crapsey
William W. Harding
Uriah Painter

Philadelphia Press
JOHN W. FORNEY
John Russell Young
Thomas Morris Chester
(THOMAS MORRIS CHESTER was a free African American correspondent who had lived in Liberia, Africa, and was one of the first Northern reporters to visit the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, after it fell to Union forces on April 2, 1865.)
 

Springfield Republican
Samuel Bowles
Samuel Fiske (killed at The Wilderness 1864)

 

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