Former Contributors
- Benjamin Perley Poore. Washington correspondent and war correspondent who wrote under the byline "Perley".
- Charles Carleton Coffin. War correspondent who wrote dispatches from the front under the byline "Carlton".
- John Sherburne Sleeper. Principal editor and part owner of the newspaper. Sleeper wrote the Journal's "Tales of the Seas" under his nom de plume of Hawser Martingale.
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