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 * valign="top"|1835.
 * April 10. Born at Speyer, Rhenish Bavaria.
 * valign="top"|1839.
 * Home in Zweibrücken.
 * colspan="2"|1849-50. At school in Phalsbourg, Lorraine.
 * colspan="2"|1850-52. At the gymnasium in Speyer.
 * colspan="2"|1852-53. Studies at Munich and Würzburg.
 * valign="top"|1853.
 * August (September ?). Sails from Hamburg for America. — October 18. Lands in New York. November 18. — Western wanderings begun.
 * valign="top"|1854.
 * Christmas. At Belleville, Illinois.
 * valign="top"|1855.
 * At Belleville and Peoria, Illinois.
 * colspan="2"|1856-57. Edits Volksblatt at Racine, Wisconsin.
 * colspan="2"|1857-58. Teaches a district school at Jonestown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.
 * valign="top"|1858.
 * Reports Lincoln-Douglas debates in Illinois.
 * valign="top"|1859.
 * Visits Denver and Cherry Creek, Colorado.
 * colspan="2"|1860-61. Reporter for the Associated Press at Springfield, Illinois.
 * valign="top"|1861.
 * February. Accompanies Lincoln and Presidential party to New York. — Founds news syndicate in Washington, and becomes telegraphic correspondent there of the New York Herald. — July 21. Witnesses first battle of Bull Run. Sent by the Herald to Kentucky.
 * valign="top"|1862.
 * Visits Fort Donelson immediately after its capture by General Grant (February 16). — Enters Nashville before General Buell. — Reaches Pittsburg Landing at close of first day's fighting, April 6; witnesses that of the second day, and the subsequent occupation of Corinth, May 30. — Witnesses Perryville campaign and battle, October 8. — Becomes Washington war correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune. — Witnesses battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, and brings the first tidings to Washington.
 * valign="top"|1863.
 * Sent to Port Royal by the Tribune, and witnesses Dupont's engagement of the Charleston forts from on board the New Ironsides, April 7. — First visit to Boston. Sent to Murfreesboro by the Tribune to report Rosecrans's operations. — Disabled by fever, and misses the battle of Chickamauga (September 19, 20).
 * valign="top"|1864.
 * Organizes news agency in Washington, and joins Grant's army in the Wilderness in May, and brings to Washington the first tidings of the battles there. — Witnesses explosion of the mine at Petersburg, July 30. — To Europe; reunion with his father. — Winter in Munich.
 * valign="top"|1859.
 * Visits Denver and Cherry Creek, Colorado.
 * colspan="2"|1860-61. Reporter for the Associated Press at Springfield, Illinois.
 * valign="top"|1861.
 * February. Accompanies Lincoln and Presidential party to New York. — Founds news syndicate in Washington, and becomes telegraphic correspondent there of the New York Herald. — July 21. Witnesses first battle of Bull Run. Sent by the Herald to Kentucky.
 * valign="top"|1862.
 * Visits Fort Donelson immediately after its capture by General Grant (February 16). — Enters Nashville before General Buell. — Reaches Pittsburg Landing at close of first day's fighting, April 6; witnesses that of the second day, and the subsequent occupation of Corinth, May 30. — Witnesses Perryville campaign and battle, October 8. — Becomes Washington war correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune. — Witnesses battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, and brings the first tidings to Washington.
 * valign="top"|1863.
 * Sent to Port Royal by the Tribune, and witnesses Dupont's engagement of the Charleston forts from on board the New Ironsides, April 7. — First visit to Boston. Sent to Murfreesboro by the Tribune to report Rosecrans's operations. — Disabled by fever, and misses the battle of Chickamauga (September 19, 20).
 * valign="top"|1864.
 * Organizes news agency in Washington, and joins Grant's army in the Wilderness in May, and brings to Washington the first tidings of the battles there. — Witnesses explosion of the mine at Petersburg, July 30. — To Europe; reunion with his father. — Winter in Munich.
 * valign="top"|1863.
 * Sent to Port Royal by the Tribune, and witnesses Dupont's engagement of the Charleston forts from on board the New Ironsides, April 7. — First visit to Boston. Sent to Murfreesboro by the Tribune to report Rosecrans's operations. — Disabled by fever, and misses the battle of Chickamauga (September 19, 20).
 * valign="top"|1864.
 * Organizes news agency in Washington, and joins Grant's army in the Wilderness in May, and brings to Washington the first tidings of the battles there. — Witnesses explosion of the mine at Petersburg, July 30. — To Europe; reunion with his father. — Winter in Munich.
 * valign="top"|1864.
 * Organizes news agency in Washington, and joins Grant's army in the Wilderness in May, and brings to Washington the first tidings of the battles there. — Witnesses explosion of the mine at Petersburg, July 30. — To Europe; reunion with his father. — Winter in Munich.