John McElroy

John McElroy (1846–1929) was an American journalist and author. Born in Kentucky and apprenticed as a printer, he enlisted in the 16th Illinois Cavalry in 1863, was captured in Virginia in January 1864 and spent fifteen months in Confederate prisons, chiefly Andersonville, which he described in Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons (1879), first serialized in the Toledo Blade, where he was an editor. In 1884 he took charge of the National Tribune in Washington, the newspaper of the Union veterans, and edited it for the rest of his life.