There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career.
When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.
One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
Initially, I tried to become an aid worker and someone who could help people, but I was unsuccessful in convincing anyone that I could be of any use. So I went and became a war correspondent without any experience in war or in being a correspondent. So that was daring.
I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
The sergeant is the Army.
Nicknamed 'Mad-Dog Mattis' by his men, he was a command warrior in the old George Patton mode. He wasn't an armchair general by any definition of that much-maligned term. If a Marine re-upped at a location where he was present, he would personally go to that Marine and thank him or her for rejoining.
As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.