Albert D Richardson THE SECRET SERVICE THE FIELD THE DUNGEON AND THE ESCAPE 1866 Antique Civil War History Memoir New York Tribune Correspondent Confederate Lines Union Armies Southern Prisons Rebellion United States Secret Service Agent Journalist
Title: The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape
Author: Albert D. Richardson - Albert Deane Richardson 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.
Publisher: American Publishing Company
City: Hartford, Connecticut
Year: 1866
Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 512 pages
Width: 6.25" Height: 9"
Book Details: This antique volume of Civil War history is bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and adornment on the spine and blind stamped boards.

This work covers the experiences of a New York Tribune correspondent within the Confederate lines in 1861, and later with the Union Armies and in southern prisons. It is a collection of his memoirs of the author's time as a United States Secret Service agent and journalist during the Civil War.

"A NY Tribune correspondent's account; parallels Browne's narrative (q.v.), but has greater detail and accuracy" - Nevins I, p. 200.

Condition / Notes: This antique volume shows well bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and adornment on the spine and decoratively blind stamped boards.

This book exhibits age/wear externally concentrated at the extremities, including a sunned spine and some staining to the back board.

The binding is tight and secure, text is clear and the pages show scattered foxing throughout. The front free endpaper bears a contemporary personal inscription.

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