Browse Reports

Subject is exactly civil war
New York Tribune article titled, "John Brown's Invasion." Written by Henry S. Olcott.

John Brown's Hanging - Henry S. Olcott - New York Tribune

Olcott volunteered to cover the hanging of John Brown for the New York Tribune when the newspaper's regular correspondent had to flee under threat of Southern ire at his dispatches. He posed as a member of the Petersburg Grays, one of the regiments sent to Charles Town to guard Brown's body.
New York Tribune article titled, "American Civilization Illustrated." Written by Q.K Philander Doesticks.

Antebellum Undercover

Redpath, Olcott, Richardson and Thomson all went South for the New York Tribune and produced reporting undercover in the run-up to the Civil War.