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Richard Harding Davis (April 18, 1864 — April 11, 1916) was a popular American writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War (1898), the Second Boer War (1899-1902), and World War I.
Richard Harding Davis in Southern Victory[]
Richard Harding Davis was an American journalist who specialized in reporting on the battlefield. He reported on the Japanese conquest of Manila at the climax of the Hispano-Japanese War. He also reported on the atrocities the Japanese soldiers inflicted on Spanish POWs.[1]
Davis was a friend of President Theodore Roosevelt, which allowed him access the frontlines of combat during the Great War. Davis bore witness to an attack planned by General George Armstrong Custer,[2] and wrote scathingly of the wasted lives, earning him Custer's hatred.[3]
David died suddenly of a heart attack in a trench on the Roanoke Front, where he was researching a story and speaking with Chester Martin and other soldiers.[4] Custer cheered when he received that news.[5]
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- ↑ American Front, pg. 375, PB.
- ↑ Ibid. pgs. 376-380.
- ↑ Ibid., pg. 469-71.
- ↑ Walk in Hell, pgs. 144-147, PB.
- ↑ Ibid., pg. 149.
