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Pioneering War Correspondent of the Mexican War
In 1846 47 the Mexican War produced early war reporting by Kendall and Lumden who rode with Taylor and Scott. Kendall helped found the Picayune in New Orleans and became a leading war correspondent sending dispatches from Tampico Vera Cruz and Mexico City. He was wounded at Molino del Rey and later won fame for frontier journalism before dying in 1867.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Press
Rio Grandé
Mexico
George Wilkins Kendall
Zachary Taylor
Winfield Scott
William Howard Russells
London Times
John Thaddeus Delane
Russell
Crimea
United States
America
England
Crabbe ‘Robinson
Charles Lewis Grunaisen
Spain
Crabbe Robinson
Bee
Medico
Morning Post
Gruneigen
Don Carlos
London
Grunelson
Archibald Forbes
France
Kendall
MacGahan
Millet
Forbes
Scott
Taylor
Rio Grande
Washington
New Orleans
Mississippi
Point Isabel
Tampico
Vera
Cruz
The
Express
Steeet Mexico
Rgion
Vera Cruz
New
Orleans
New. Orleans
Wade
Morse
New Hampshire
Francis
A. Lumsden
Picayune
New York
Lumsden
Santa Fe
Benjamin’ McCulloch
Buena Vista
Scot
Lumaden
Monterey
Bra‘zos
T Picayune
Galtimore
Santa Anna
General Worth
San Juan de Ulloa
Aventoria
Molino del Rey
G. W. Kendall
Louisiana
Wyse
Hargous
Borland
G. ‘W. Kendall
Volantéen
Brazos
de Santiago