Origins of the Sickles-Meade Controversy in Gettysburg Battlefield Reporting

Abstract

Origins of the Sickles-Meade Controversy relationship with the press throughout his career in politics and government during pre– Civil War years.4 When appointed secretary to the American Mission in London in 1853, he was praised as an excellent choice by both the New York Herald and the New York Times.5 But the Times later decided they had “overrated him,” lamenting “the injury infl icted upon [the nation’s] interests and character by