William Howard Russell's Civil War: Private Diary and Letters, 1861-1862 - Paperbackby Martin Crawford (Editor), William Howard Russell (Author) Having won renown in the 1850s for his vivid warfront dispatches from the Crimea, William Howard Russell was the most celebrated foreign journalist in America during the first year of the Civil War. As a special correspondent for The Times of London, Russell was charged with explaining the American crisis to a British audience, but his reports also had great impact in America. They so