Alfred R. Waud, artist correspondent for Harper's Weekly, sketching at Gettysburg, 1863

Information for these papers came from "special correspondents" -- artists, photographers, and reporters sent out into the field by the papers. By the end of the war, Northern and Southern newspapers had employed around 500 of these men [1 x]. Many had had previous newspaper experience, but others volunteered for the work fresh, some from the ranks of the soldiers themselves [1 x]. The tenacity of the correspondents, who sometimes infiltrated military operations and disregarded national security censorship orders, often dismayed the military and government; but it provided readers with a steady stream of information, some accurate and some not [1 124, 142, 151, 155].

 

Here, Alfred R. Waud, artist correspondent for the illustrated paper Harper's Weekly, sketches at Gettysburg [3]. He would have sent his images back to the paper, where they would be converted into woodcuts or copperplate engravings for printing [1 11, 13]

 

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