List of war correspondents of the American Civil War

This is a list of war correspondents of the American Civil War and the outlets for which they typically reported. Overall there were about 600 different newspaper reporters covering the war.

• Peter W. Alexander, Savannah Republican
• A. Homer Byington, New York Tribune
• Thomas Morris Chester, Philadelphia Press
• Charles Carleton Coffin, Boston Journal
• William George, pen name "De Soto," The New York Times
• Felix Gregory de Fontaine, Charleston Courier
• Thomas W. Knox, New York Herald
• U.H. Painter, Philadelphia Inquirer
• Whitelaw Reid, pen name "Agate," Cincinnati Gazette
• William Howard Russell, London Times
• George W. Smalley, New York Tribune
• Benjamin C. Truman, Philadelphia Press and New York Times
• Samuel Wilkeson Jr., The New York Times

See also

• Photographers of the American Civil War
• Alfred Waud, war artist
• Theodore R. Davis, war artist

References