"A Reporter for Lincoln" — Ida Tarbell — 1929 — With dust jacket

Full title: A Reporter for Lincoln: A Story of Henry E. Wing, Soldier and Newspaperman by Ida Tarbell. Published in New York by The Book League of America in 1929. 78pp.

Written for young readers, this book follows young war correspondent Henry E. Wing, whose firsthand reports from Grant’s army earned him a private meeting—and lasting connection—with President Lincoln. Wing became Lincoln’s trusted source for frontline updates during the final year of the Civil War.

FOREWORD

The story of the adventures of Henry E. Wing, cub reporter for the New York Tribune in the last year of the Civil War, is based on letters and articles by Wing himself, supplemented by the author's many conversations with him in the last year of his life.

The story treatment has altered no fact, stretched no point, added no artificial evidence to Henry Wing's own stirring accounts of his experiences or of his close relations with Abraham Lincoln. So far as possible, the historical facts have been verified.

Before the narrative was ready for publication, Mr. Wing died, at his home near Bethel, Conn. — a man of 85 years to the last clear in mind and serene and cheerful is spirit.

IDA M. TARBELL

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