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Henry W. B. (Henry Ward Beecher) Howard
1849–1906
A Brooklyn writer and editor with a strong feel for local history, he is best remembered for helping preserve the story of a growing city and its newspaper culture in the late 1800s. His work has the flavor of civic memory—part chronicle, part celebration of Brooklyn's past.
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Campfire and battlefield : an illustrated history of the campaigns and conflicts of the great Civil War
by Rossiter Johnson, Selden Connor, John Brown Gordon, Henry W. B. (Henry Ward Beecher) Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis) Howard, John Tyler Morgan, John Clark Ridpath
About the author
Born in Brooklyn on May 14, 1849, Henry Ward Beecher Howard was an American author and editor whose surviving record ties him closely to the city where he spent his life. He died in Brooklyn on April 16, 1906.
Howard is chiefly associated with The Eagle and Brooklyn, a large illustrated historical work produced with Arthur N. Jervis and connected with the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The book was issued to mark the newspaper's semi-centennial and its move into a new building, while also tracing the history and development of Brooklyn.
His bibliography appears to be small in the readily available sources, which suggests he is remembered less as a prolific literary figure than as a careful compiler of local and historical material. That makes him a fitting author for readers who enjoy older works rooted in place, memory, and the texture of nineteenth-century American life.