American journalist, born in Georgetown, DE, on the 30th of January 1841. After acquiring an education in Philadelphia, he began writing for the press of that city. In 1862 he became a war correspondent of the New York Herald, reporting for that paper the operations of the Army of the Potomac in the peninsula, and Pope’s campaign in northern Virginia. Before the close of that year he went to Europe, and there delivered a number of lectures on the Civil War in America. Returning to the United States, he was engaged by the New York World as war correspondent in 1864, and in this capacity speedily gained a reputation as a descriptive writer. After the war he divided his time between lecturing and writing for the press, and in 1866 he was in Europe describing the events of the Austro-Prussian War. He adopted the pen-name of “Gath” in 1868, when a correspondent of the Chicago Tribune. He published, among others, Campaigns of a Non-Combatant (1865); Poems (1870); Washington Outside and Inside (1871); Katy of Catoctin (1886); and Mrs. Reynolds and Hamilton (1890).
