A.Dudley Mann, later along Confederate commissioner to France, preceding Mr.Slidell.
Colonel Mann wished to work incognito.

I was taken on as a kind of go-between and, as I may say, figurehead, on the strength of being my father's son and a very self-confident young gentleman, and began to get my newspaper education in point of fact as a kind of fetch-and-carry for Major Heiss.

He was a practical newspaper man who had started the Union at Nashville as well as the Union at Washington and the Crescent--maybe it was the Delta--at New Orleans; and for the rudiments of newspaper work I could scarcely have had a better teacher.
Back of Colonel Mann as a leader writer on the States was a remarkable woman.

She was Mrs.Jane Casneau, the wife of Gen.

George Casneau, of Texas, who had a claim before Congress.