Foreword
Table of Contents
1. The Reporter and the Fort
2. The Press Girds for the Conflict
3. "Gentlemen of the Ravenous Pen"
4. The Men in the Field
5. The First Fruits of the Censorship
6. The Curtain Slowly Rises
7. The First Tidings From the Fleet
8. An Affray With General Halleck
9. The Press Goes to the Peninsula
10. "Come, Sir, this is no Time for Prayer
11. Battle Reporting at its Best
12. On the March with Buell and Rosecrans
13. "Dont treat . . . Fredericksburg as a Disaster"
14. By-Lines by General Order
15. Some "Casualties" Among the Bohemians
16. Gettysburg as the Newsmen Saw It
17. "Shambling Shanks and the Fugacious Furay"
18. Grim Days at Chattanooga
19. Strange Tales from the Red River Country
20. Into the Wilderness Again
21. "Atlanta is Ours, and Fairly Won"
22. "If All . . . Battles . . . Were as Well Described"
23. The Grand Finale
24. "Thirty"
Notes
Acknowledgments
Northern Reporters
Bibliography
Index