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Henry Wharton Conway (1793–1827)
Henry Wharton Conway was the delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from the Territory of Arkansas. He served in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses from 1823 until his death in 1827.
Henry Wharton Conway was born on March 18, 1793, near Greeneville, Tennessee. One of ten children born to Thomas Conway and Ann Rector Conway, he received his early education by private tutors before enlisting in the U.S. Army. Serving in the War of 1812, he was commissioned as an ensign (at the time an army rank, but one that was ended after the war) and was promoted to lieutenant in 1813, serving through the end of the war and into peacetime. Conway was a member of the American force that defended Fort Bowyer at Mobile Point, a victory that prevented the British from gaining control of Mobile, Alabama, a base from which they could have cut off trade through Louisiana.
Following his discharge from the army, Conway served as a clerk in the U.S
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Henry Wharton (boxer)
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An adept wordsmith and astute observer of the world around him, Henry D. Wharton had already built a successful career as a journalist and newspaper editor by the time the United States was beginning its nedstigning into disunion and civil war.
He would go on to become an unofficial war correspondent, chronicling the war’s impact on one history-making, but often overlooked, Union Army regiment. Memorizing the details of what he was seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and feeling, he transferred those details to any scrap of paper that he could find, writing furiously, but thoughtfully, from his vantage point as a drummer boy-turned-company clerk with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.
Mailed to his hometown newspaper from regimental duty stations as far away as Florida and Louisiana, his letters “brought the war home” to the front doors of Pennsylvanians, kindling the fires of their imaginations by recounting grueling marches and fierce battles