henry villard dispatches are not only informative but highly readable . as one scholar said his work was marked by individuality and mental vigor. these dispatches constitute high-grade historians offering descriptions of lots of different things, lincoln's appearance, descriptions of his daily routine, descriptions of his visitors got descriptions of his views as well as information about the illinois capital. anyone interested in lincoln or the secession crisis or springfield will find those dispatches highly informative. now for some background on henry villard. he was born in germany in 1835. as an adolescent he immigrated to the united states he changed his name and worked at various jobs including journalists. he first encountered lincoln in 1858 when he covered the illinois senatorial campaign for a new york newspaper. villard tells you this and his two volume memoir . i went out and covered the lincoln douglas campaign but what he doesn't tell you is he trashed lincoln. that he wrote about three of the debates the first three for the new yorker wh

henry villard is best known as a successful 19th-century railroad promoter and financier. he was responsible for the creation of the northern pacific railroad. he was born in germany and, in addition to being a financier, one of the most conscientious reporters of the 1860's as a leading historian of civil war journalism observed. the most noteworthy reportage is 1861 when he0 and was in springfield for three months following lincoln's election. wrote that time, he scores of dispatches for various newspapers. those dispatches cost a most intensive journalistic coverage that lincoln ever experienced. he filed stories from the illinois capital almost daily to the new york herald, less often ,o the cincinnati commercial and occasionally to the san francisco bulletin. many historians have consulted in a excerpts of villard's pamphlet-like addition. really pamphlet-like. i joke about long books, like david blight's pamphlet on frederick douglass. by my standard, it is a pamphlet. the green monster is 2000 pages. anyway, in 1941 there is a called lincoln on the eve of 61, a jour