In Kentucky, during the advance of Kirby Smith upon Cincinnati, the correspondents of The Gazette and The Commercial were captured by the advance-guard of Rebel cavalry.  Their baggage, money, and watches became the property of their captors.  The correspondents were released, and obliged to walk about eighty miles in an August sun.  A short time later, Mr. Shanks and Mr. Westfall, correspondents of The Herald, were made acquainted with John Morgan, in one of the raids of that famous guerrilla.  The acquaintance resulted in a thorough depletion of the wardrobes of the captured gentlemen.

In Virginia, Mr. Cadwallader and Mr. Fitzpatrick, of The Herald, and Mr. Crounse, of The Times, were captured by Mosby, and liberated after a brief detention and a complete relief of every thing portable and valuable, down to their vests and pantaloons.  Even their dispatches were taken from them and forwarded to Richmond.  A portion of these reports found their way into the Richmond papers.  Stonewall Jackson and Stuart were also fortunate enough to capture some of the representatives of the Press.  At one time there were five correspondents of The Herald in the hands of the Rebels.  One of them, Mr. Anderson, was held more than a year.  He was kept for ten days in an iron dungeon, where no ray of light could penetrate.

I have elsewhere alluded to the capture of Messrs. Richardson and Browne, of The Tribune, and Mr. Colburn, of The World, in front of Vicksburg.  The story of the captivity and perilous escape of these representatives of The Tribune reveals a patience, a fortitude, a daring, and a fertility of resource not often excelled.

Some of the most graphic battle-accounts of the war were written very hastily.  During the three days’ battle at Gettysburg, The Herald published each morning the details of the fighting of the previous day, down to the setting of the sun.  This was accomplished by having a correspondent with each corps, and one at head-quarters to forward the accounts to the nearest telegraph office.  At Antietam, The Tribune correspondent viewed the battle by day, and then hurried from the field, writing the most of his account on a railway train.  From Fort Donelson the correspondents of The World and The Tribune went to Cairo, on a hospital boat crowded with wounded.  Their accounts were written amid dead and suffering men, but when published they bore little evidence of their hasty preparation.

I once wrote a portion of a letter at the end of a medium-sized table.  At the other end of the table a party of gamblers, with twenty or thirty spectators, were indulging in “Chuck-a-Luck.”  I have known dispatches to be written on horseback, but they were very brief, and utterly illegible to any except the writer.  Much of the press correspondence during the war was written in railway cars and on steamboats, and much on camp-chests, stumps, or other