Joseph Burbridge McCullagh (1842-1896)

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Journalist, Newspaper Editor

A native of Dublin, Ireland, Joseph B. McCullagh worked his way to America on a ship at the age of 11 and eventually became an apprentice printer in St Louis, Missouri. His first reporting assignment was for the St Louis Democrat in 1859. After a short stint in General Fremont's bodyguard, McCullagh became a war correspondent for the Cincinnati Daily Gazette.

He covered the Fort Henry-Donelson campaign from the deck of the USS St Louis which was hit 65 times by Confederate shellfire.and was present at the disasterous battle of Shiloh. After his paper refused to publish his account of Union fumbling at the battle, he quit, only to be picked up by the Cincinnati Commercial at double salary.

After the Vicksburg campaign, McCullagh became the Commercial's Washington correspondent and also worked for the Associated Press of New York. McCullagh was noted for his interviews with prominent persons such as US Grant, Andrew Jackson and Alexander Stevens. After the Civil War he successfully edited several papers ending with the St Louis Globe-Democrat, the first paper he ever worked for. Joseph McCullagh died in an accidental fall from a window during an illness in 1896.

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