This book contains the transcribed journals and reports of a war correspondent for the Boston Journal covering the campaign that captured New Orleans in 1862. H

Focusing on a self-proclaimed "bohemian brigade" of Civil War journalists, this volume considers the nature of combat correspondence. Perry describes how compet

Having won renown in the 1850s for his vivid warfront dispatches from the Crimea, William Howard Russell was the most celebrated foreign journalist in America d

This book provides biographies of all of the known Confederate dead buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, Maryland. Also included are narratives of how

For the newspaper profession the problems confronted in reporting the Civil War were as catalytic as the war itself was for American society. Many of the proble