Identifying a certain war correspondent

[Imakegarb]

Greetings!!

It's me again, come to pester y'all . . . again :-)

I'm trying to identify the Chicago Tribute War Correspondent who was with the Iowa First Infanty in August 1861 and who also sent a dispatch to the tribune from Helena, ARK., Jan. 17, 1863.

I had a short (though I don't know that it was complete) list to start with and I've failed to eliminate the following:

A.H. Bodman - I'm hoping it's this fellow and he certainly had an interesting time. Only he seems to have wandered further South for most of the war.

Richard J. Hinton - VERY active in Kansas and so, if I *have* go guess, I think it's him but I don't know.

J.A. Austen - I don't know a thing about him but I've not been able to eliminate him.

So was it one of these three? Someone else entirely?

Oh this is fun :D

Thank y'all for letting me pester you.

[Imakegarb]

K, I've since been given a third possible name: George C. Clark. He apparently hung out with the Iowa 9th.

I still don't know who it is I'm looking for but who ever it was, they were living in Guttenburg, in Clayton County, Mo., Iowa, by 1869.

[Brian Wolle]

one question: was he an actual employee of the paper? He may not have been, unless you know better. He could have bee just a soldier writing to his favorite paper. Obviously, the article in question did not have a by-line, but was there more than one? Was he with the unit a short time before moving on? You are talking about someone travelling with the first Iowa, but writng to a chicago newspaper. So there's a difference in proximity. He may have just been there a short while for whatever the reason. Why is something that pops up. Did he know someone in the unit? Was there something special about the unit? Why was he not nearer headquarters?