Acknowledgments

GREAT CARE HAS BEEN TAKEN THAT THE WHEREABOUTS OF the fictitious soldiers in the two armies are always subject to those of the specific regiment or commanding officer to which they have been assigned. With regard to the standing of Special Correspondents a generation before Richard Harding Davis, the following is quoted from “Four Years in Secessia,” an account of his own adventures as a “Special” by J. H. Browne, published in 1865.

“The Correspondents have figures in the casualties again and again; have been killed and wounded and captured; have perhaps had quite their share of the accidents of war…. They usually enter some officer’s mess, on taking the field; have their own horses; pay their proportion of the expenses; and live exactly as the officers do, except that they are not subject to orders…. If they have any fondness—and many of them have

—for fighting, they can always be accommodated. I have more than once seen them in the field, musket in hand and frequently trying their skill as sharpshooters. They very often act as voluntary aides on the staff of general officers and have in numerous instances played a conspicuous and important part in engagements.”

Again I owe thanks to the same patient people who assisted during the research for “Dawn’s Early Light”—notably, Miss Mary McWilliams of Colonial Williamsburg, Dr. E. G. Swem, Librarian at the College of William and Mary, Mrs. F. G. King and the staff of the New York Society Library, and Mr. F. F. Van de Water. In addition, gratitude is now due Mrs.

Eudora Richardson of Richmond, and Mr. Frank Browning, the latter even lending me, a stranger, valued books from his own library.

E. T.

1944

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