A war correspondent for The New York Times named Samuel Wilkeson Jr. trudged through the violated Pennsylvania landscape on a solitary quest. The weary journalist was searching for one particular Union soldier who was said to have had his leg blown off. His teenage son.
At Gettysburg, a Reporter Captured a Nation’s Loss, and His Ownnytimes.comSamuel Wilkeson Jr. filed a report for The Times from the battlefield. Then he went looking for a Union officer, his son.