Byline: Old News Is Good News

The war correspondents who were sent to this war knew it was to sound their death-knell.

Ever since the opening of hostilities, the authorities at Washington had sought to effect his capture; but a year of the war had passed, and he was still spreading terror along the Potomac.

In times of war you constantly see men, and women, too, who, sooner than suffer discomfort or even inconvenience, risk death.

I said that whatever he would write for me, on what ever subject, at what ever time, I would accept without question or reservation, and put on the stage at my own theater: rather a remarkable pledge, seeing that our acquaintance dated from about ten minutes back; but I meant exactly what I said.

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell’s Island? I said I could and I would. And I did