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Post by elisabeth on Mar 3, 2006 7:51:10 GMT -6
Does anybody happen to know whether the Army & Navy Journal in the 1860s/1870s paid for contributions? And if so, whether they paid well?
Just that I'm intrigued to see a few occasional civilian contributors from time to time, and would like to know their motivation. Axes to grind? Or purely commercial?
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Post by alfuso on Mar 4, 2006 0:08:37 GMT -6
Elixabeth
I can't say about the A/N Journal. But many newspapers of the day did pay for letters. Several dollars in fact. So offi crs and enlisted men often earned a few bucks by writing to newspapers.
Including GAC.
alfuso
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Post by elisabeth on Mar 5, 2006 7:26:43 GMT -6
A-hah. Hence the eagerness of everybody's friends and relations to pass on their private letters from the frontier to the newspapers. And there was I, thinking it was pure public-spiritedness ...
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Post by George Armstrong Custer on Mar 5, 2006 16:19:32 GMT -6
Interesting topic! Does anyone happen to know what Custer was paid for his contributions to the Galaxy magazine, and Turf, Field and Farm? And how was he paid - per so many words, or at a fixed rate per contribution, regardless of length?
From the writers garret,
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