Pictures of Southern Life, Social , Political, and Military WRITTEN FOR THE LONDON TIMES BY William Howard Russell. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. Published by J A M E S G. G R E G O R Y, (SUCCESSOR TO W. A. TOWNSEND & CO.,) 46 WALKER STREET in 1861. William Howard Russell CVO was born in Tallaght, Co. Dublin. He was an Irish reporter with The Times, and is considered to have been one of the first modern war correspondents, after he spent 22 months covering the Crimean War including the Charge of the Light Brigade.