George Alfred Townsend
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND (1841-1914), a journalist, a war correspondent during the American Civil War, and a novelist, was in 1865, correspondent for the New York World, covering the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. His reports of Lincoln's assassination and General Sheridan's victory at the Battle of Five Forks, Virginia, brought him considerable recognition.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND (1841-1914), a journalist, a war correspondent during the American Civil War, and a novelist, was in 1865, correspondent for the New York World, covering the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. His reports of Lincoln's assassination and General Sheridan's victory at the Battle of Five Forks, Virginia, brought him considerable recognition. See less
