One good thing about William Tecumseh Sherman was that he didn't put up with journalists. He hated them, believed they were traitors, and ordered them out of his camp when they were discovered. I recall reading he threatened one with arrest if he wasn't on the first train out of town.
It's funny that this article was published in the NY Slimes back in 1987:
Sherman Letters Show Civil War General Regarded Reporters as 'Spies'
This is great stuff, thanks for sharing:
‘’I will illustrate why I regard newspaper correspondents as spies,’’ Sherman wrote on Feb. 17, 1863.
‘’A spy is one who furnishes an enemy with knowledge useful to him and dangerous to us. I say in giving intelligence to the enemy, in sowing discord & discontent in an army, these men fulfill all the conditions of spies.
I am satisfied they have cost the country hundreds of millions of dollars & brought our country to the brink of ruin & that unless the nuisance is abated we are lost.’’