Military Images, July 1st, 2002
Famed newspaperman Horace Greeley visited a Union Army winter camp and his visit was captured on film. He is a self-made man who worships his creator," Henry Clapp, Jr., a New York reporter quipped about Horace Greeley who may have been the most famous individual in America in the 1860s. Hundreds of tourists visited his newspaper, the New York Tribune, daily, hoping to catch a glimpse of the man in his fabled white coat. By the Civil War Greeley was as much a myth as a man. "His entrance into a tavern, much more into a lecture hall, raises gradulating shouts and I could scarcely keep the peo...
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