Everything about William Henry Gilder totally explained
William Henry Gilder (1838–1900), was an
American soldier, journalist, explorer and writer.
He was born in
Philadelphia. At the beginning of the
Civil War, he enlisted in the 5th New York Infantry (
Duryée's Zouaves), was transferred to the 40th New York, and was mustered out with the rank of
captain and
brevet major.
From 1871 to 1877 he was managing editor of the
Newark Register and from 1878 to 1880 was second in command on the expedition of
Frederick Schwatka in search of the relics of Sir
John Franklin. He accompanied the
De Long expedition on
Rodgers under Captain Berry and, after the burning of the vessel on the western shore of
Bering Strait, made a midwinter journey of nearly 2,000 miles (3,218 km) across
Siberia to telegraph to the government the news of the disaster. He afterwards participated in the search for De Long in the
Lena delta. In 1883 he was in
Tongking as a war correspondent during the
French-Annamese War and in 1884 visited the region of the earthquakes in
Spain. On his expeditions and travels he was a correspondent of the
New York Herald. He published
Schwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records (1881) and
Ice-Pack and Tundra (1883).
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