A New York Times correspondent filed his dispatch from the Battle of Gettysburg, then searched the hellscape for one particular Union soldier said to have had his leg blown off.
His teenage son.
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At Gettysburg, a Reporter Captured a Nation’s Loss, and His Own (Gift Article)
Samuel Wilkeson Jr. filed a report for The Times from the battlefield. Then he went looking for a Union officer, his son.