Excerpt from Letters of a War Correspondent
The correspondence of a first-class newspaper during our civil war is, in many respects, more valuable and instructive than the most impartial history of that important period. The historian relates facts and opinions as he has distilled them from the reports of others; the correspondent gives us his own impressions of events as they actually passed before his eyes. He is in the thick of the fight, where sabres clash, and minie-balls whistle, or he is perched in a friendly tree, or on some commanding hill, whence he views all the movements of the hostile battalions; and hence, if he be cool, truthful, and intrepid, we gather from him a living photograph of the tremendous conflict.
No more graphic, faithful, or venturous correspondent than Charles A. Page looked on at our civil war, and none more truthfully or graphically described its momentous events. "If Page says that it is so," was a common remark of Horace Greeley's in the "Tribune" editorial rooms; and the subsequent motto of the "Sun," "If you see it in the 'Sun,' it is so," was merely Charles A. Dana's appropriation of this familiar saying of Mr. Greeley. He once met Mr. Page on a railway train and said to him: "We are greatly pleased with your work; you are quick and graphic, and give us the news early, and we must have it early; but, Mr. Page, you are the most expensive young man the 'Tribune' has ever employed." To this Mr. Page replied: "Early news is expensive news, Mr. Greeley; if I have the watermelons and whiskey ready when the officers come along from the fight, I get the news without asking questions."
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