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The Making of an American Journalist
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n°1.: NOTEBOOK "1866 to 1870 Notes" (1866-1871), Copyright © King Baudouin Foundation Collection / Royal Museum for Central Africa |
Stanley migrated to the USA in 1859. In New Orleans he met Henry Hope Stanley and would eventually take his name.
In 1861 he joined an Arkansas regiment to fight on the confederate side in the American Civil War. Captured at the Battle of Shiloh, he enlisted in the Union Army to get out of prison. A few months later he went AWOL. In 1864 he joined the Union Navy, only to jump ship.
In 1865 he started his career as a journalist by becoming a free-lance reporter with The Missouri Democrat, then The Democrat, in St. Louis.
Some of Stanley’s very early diaries record dates and itineraries of his American travels. They also speak of people met. His major assignment was covering the U.S. Government Peace Commission’s efforts to sign treaties with various Indian Nations.
