Excerpt from Letters of a War Correspondent 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 ...
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Excerpt from Letters of a War Correspondent 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 re plied: 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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