The secret service, the field, the dungeon, and the escape

by Albert Deane Richardson

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Genres: History

512 pages, Unknown Binding

First published August 1, 1972

About the author

Albert Deane Richardson (October 6, 1833 - December 2, 1869) was a well-known American journalist, Union spy, and author.

Richardson wrote for the New York Tribune owned by Horace Greeley, and traveled to battlefields during the American Civil War to report on the war, often with fellow journalist Junius Henri Browne.

Richardson and Browne were imprisoned for 20 months in seven different prisons, confined successively at Vicksburg, Jackson, Atlanta, Richmond, and Salisbury, North Carolina, prisons. On December 18, 1864, after 20 months of imprisonment, he escaped from Salisbury, along with Browne. They traveled together more than 400 miles through hostile country, and reached the Union lines on January 14, 1865. His list of Union soldiers who died at Salisbury, published in the Tribune, is the only authentic account of their fate.

Reviews

[Caitlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Albert Richardson, writer for the Tribune in Cincinnati, records a wealth of interactions between himself and southerners of the Civil War. He includes the words of both Union loyalists and rebels, as he remembers them. This book is partly a journal and was published in 1865, just after the war ended. It's not too technical or deep and is easy to understand.

[William Keyser · Rating 5 out of 5]

Truly an epic journey through the South during Secession

A Tribune Journalist who survives Prison and Escape who has been at many of the critical openings of the war. It was difficult to stop reading and he keeps you in suspense the entire time. It ranks as an equal to the Count of Monte Cristo. Historic and Inspirational well worth the read.

[Patrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic first person account of battles, prisons and escape from the American Civil War. Read the 1865 original version.

[Ann · Rating 4 out of 5]

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