Hayes left. Whittaker in, and
off with Tracy. Hamilton came up.
To hotel, met Ripley; got note
from Howell, up the river dated on the 4th nothing
doing there, then. Up in Schell s
room and in mine, scoring up
diary. Afternoon hither and thither.
Talk of the suppression of the Delta
the change of editorship. And going
into the Southern restaurant met B.
Hills at the door, who supping with
me, stated that he and his New
York namesake would henceforth
conduct the Delta. (The N.Y. Hills
is worthy of his close friendship (?)
with Stedman, resembling him equally
in greed and incontinence. While
on our journey out, and here, in New
Orleans, A.C. was lobbying for a
captaincy on the staff of Gen Hamil-
ton: at Baton Rouge he intrigued
for the editorship of the Comet ; re-
turned he went in for the Colo-
| Page |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty-Two: page fifty-seven |
| Description: | Regarding the ambitions of A.C. Hills. |
| Date: | 1863-02-09 |
| Subject: | Civil War; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Hamilton; Hayes (reporter); Hills, A.C.; Hills, A.G.; Howell; Ripley, Philip; Schell, Frank H.; Stedman, Edmund Clarence; Tracy (New Orleans); Whittaker |
| Coverage (City/State): | New Orleans, [Louisiana] |
| Scan Date: | 2011-01-03 |
| Volume |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty-Two |
| Description: | Includes Gunn's descriptions of his experiences as a war correspondent for ''The New York Tribune'' at New Orleans, Louisiana, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as well as his preparations in New York for going back to England. |
| Subject: | Boardinghouses; Civil War; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Journalism; Military; Travel; Women |
| Coverage (City/State): | New York, New York; New Orleans, Louisiana; Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Note: | Thomas Butler Gunn was born February 15, 1826, in Banbury, England, and came to New York in 1849. During the Civil War he worked as a correspondent for the New York Tribune and the New York Evening Post. He returned to England in 1863, and died in Birmingham in April 1903. The collection includes twenty-one volumes of his diaries, including newspaper clippings, letters, photographs, sketches, and various other items inserted by Gunn. Diary entries date from July 7, 1849, to April 7, 1863, and include his experiences with the New York publishing and literary world, his descriptions of boarding houses, his travels throughout the United States, and his experiences traveling with the Federal army as a Civil War correspondent. |
| Publisher: | Missouri History Museum |
| Rights: | Copyright 2011 Missouri History Museum. |
| Source: | Page images, transcriptions, and metadata of the Thomas Butler Gunn diaries have been provided by the Missouri History Museum. |
