Status Updates From Bohemian Brigade: Civil War...

“Sam Wilkeson…learned that his eldest son, Bayard, a nineteen-year-old artillery lieutenant, had had his leg blown off on the first day and was either a prisoner or a corpse in the hands of the enemy. Sam lived up to the finest traditions of journalism. Later, sitting beside the boy's freshly dug grave, he wrote the Times one of the great dispatches of the war.”