Many generals considered reporters ‘the scum of creation,’ but George Meade ran one out of camp backward on a mule. With some justification, Civil War reporters are typically portrayed as a merry band of boisterous, hard-drinking bohemians, blithely navigating their way through the horrors of combat, always willing to lie, cheat and spy on one …
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