REDPATH, James, journalist: b. Ber wick-on-Tweed, England, 14 Aug. 1833; d. New York, 10 Feb. 1891. He emigrated to De troit, Mich., in 1848, and in 1852 removed to New York and became connected with the Tribune. In 1855 he went to Kansas and took part in the Free-Soil movement which he de scribed for northern papers. Being already a confirmed anti-slavery advocate he traveled in the South for personal investigation of slavery conditions. With others he then undertook a, scheme of colonization in Haiti and during his visits to the island was appointed by President Giffrard commissioner of emigration in the United States. The breaking out of the Civil War put an end to his plans, and he entered the field as war correspondent principally attached to the armies of Generals Sherman and Thomas. At the close of the war he became superin tendent of education in Charleston, S. C., re
organized its school system, and established colored schools and the Colored Orphan Asylum. In 1868 he established the Lyceum Bureau in Boston which arranged for the pub lic appearance of lecturers and readers, which business was afterward purchased by Maj. J. B. Pond (q.v.). Resuming editorial work on the Tribune, he went to Ireland to report the famine of 1879-80. There he became interested in the Home Rule movement and devoted sev eral years to its interests. In 1886 he became attached to the staff of The North American Review. He assisted • Jefferson Davis in pre paring his history of the Southern Confederacy, and wrote, among other works, (The Roving Editor, or Talks with Slaves in the Southern States' (1859); (The Public Life of Captain Jared' ohn B(1881)rown' (1860) ; and (Talks About Ire l.