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"In view of the author's rich material, his well-known trustworthiness, and graphic descriptive powers, the publishers feel justified in predicting a work of unusual interest, containing more of the fact, incident, and romance of the war than any other which has yet appeared." NEW YORK TIMESThe remarkable Civil War career of famous New York "Tribune" journalist, Albert D. Richardson, was packed with more action, intrigue, and danger than many of his colleagues. Like war correspondents today, Richardson reported from where the shells were flying and men were dying.He was also a Union spy.He reported from the south before the war and from "Bleeding Kansas" in the fifties. He met with and discussed the war with Abraham Lincoln before heading to Vicksburg. That's all here in his classic book.And in 1863, Richardson and the other famous "Tribune" correspondent, Junius Browne, were captured while trying to run the Confederate batteries protecting the river at Vicksburg. They spent 20 months in harrowing prison conditions until their dramatic and dangerous escape through enemy territory.It's a story that should be known by every American. Richardson aspired to great literary writing but along with the danger, there is plenty of wonderful humor.Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers, tablets, and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

I. THE SECRET SERVICE. Going South in the Secret Service. Instructions from the Managing Editor. A Visit to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. Nashville, Tennessee. Alabama Unionists. How the State was Precipitated into the Rebellion. Reaching Memphis. Abolitionists Mobbed and Hanged. Brutalities of Slavery.In Memphis. How the Secessionists Carried the Day. Aims of the Leading Rebels. On the Railroad. A Northerner Warned. An Amusing Dialogue. Talk about Assassinating President Lincoln. Arrival in New Orleans. Hospitality from a Stranger. An Ovation to General Twiggs. Braxton Bragg. The Rebels Anxious for War. A Glance at the Louisiana Convention.Association with Leading Secessionists. Their Hatred of New England. Admission to the Democratic Club. Abuse of President Lincoln. Sinking Buildings, Cellars and Walls Impossible. Cemeteries above Ground. Monument of a Pirate. Canal Street. The Great French Markets. Dedication of a Secession Flag in the Catholic Church. The Cotton Presses. Visit to the Jackson Battle-ground. The Creoles. Jackson's Head-Quarters. A Fire in the Rear. A Life Saved by a Cigar. A Black Republican Flag. Vice-President Hamlin a Mulatto. Northerners leaving the South.How Letters were Written and Transmitted. A System of Cipher. A Philadelphian among the Rebels. Probable fate of a Tribune Correspondent, if Discovered. Southern Manufactures. A Visit to a Southern Shoe Factory. Where the Machinery and Workmen came from. How Southern Shoes were Made. Study of Southern Society. Report of a Slave Auction. Sale of a White Woman. Girls on the Block. Husbands and Wives Separated. A most Revolting Spectacle. The Delights of a Tropical Climate.A Northerner among the Minute Men. Louisiana Convention. A Lively Discussion. Boldness of the Union Members. Another Exciting Discussion. Secessionists Repudiate their Own Doctrines. Despotic Rebel Theories. The Northwest to Join the Rebels. The Great Swamp. A Trip through Louisiana. The Tribune Correspondent Invited to a Seat in the Mississippi Convention.The Mississippi State-House. View of the Rebel Hall. Its General Air of Dilapidation. A Free-and-Easy Convention. Southern Orators. The Anglo-African Delegate. A Speech Worth Preserving. Familiar Conversation of Members. New Orleans Again. Reviewing Troops. New Orleans Again. Hatred of Southern Unionists. Three Obnoxious Northerners. The Attack on Sumter. Rebel Bravado.Abolition Tendencies of Kentuckians. Fundamental Grievances of the Rebels. Sudden Departure from New Orleans. Mobile. The War Spirit High. An Awkward Encounter. "Massa, Fort Sumter has gone Up." Bells Ringing. Cannon Booming. Up the Alabama River. A Dancing Little Darkey. How to Escape Suspicion. Southern Characteristics and Provincialism. Visit to the Confederate Capital. At Montgomery, Alabama. Copperas Breeches vs. Black Breeches. A Correspondent under Arrest.A Journey Through Georgia. Excitement of the People. Washington to be Captured. Apprehensions about Arming the Negroes. A Fatal Question. Charleston. Looking at Fort Sumter. A Short Stay in the City. North Carolina. The Country on Fire. Submitting to Rebel Scrutiny. The North Heard From. Richmond, Virginia. The Frenzy of the People. Up the Potomac. The Old Flag Once More. An Hour with President Lincoln. Washington in Panic. A Regiment which Came Out to Fight. Baltimore under Rebel Rule. Pennsylvania. The North fully Aroused. Uprising of the whole People. A Tribune Correspondent on Trial in Charleston. He is Warned to Leave. His Fortunate Escape II. THE FIELD. Sunday at Niagara Falls. View from the Suspension Bridge. The Palace of the Frost King. Chicago, a City Rising from the Earth. Mysteries of Western Currency. A Horrible Spectacle in Arkansas. Patriotism of the Northwest. Missouri. The Rebels bent on Revolution. Nathaniel Lyon. Camp Jackson. Sterling Price Joins the Rebels. His Quarrel with Frank Blair. His Personal Character. St. Louis in a Convulsion. A Nashville Experience. Bitterne

Early in 1861, I felt a strong desire to look at the Secession movement for myself; to learn, by personal observation, whether it sprang from the people or not; what the Revolutionists wanted, what they hoped, and what they feared. But the southern climate, never propitious to the longevity of Abolitionists, was now unfavorable to the health of every northerner, no matter how strong his political constitution. I felt the danger of being recognized; for several years of roving journalism, and a good deal of political speaking on the frontier, had made my face familiar to persons whom I did not remember at all, and given me that large and motley acquaintance which every half-public life necessitates. Moreover, I had passed through the Kansas struggle; and many former shining lights of Border Ruffianism were now, with perfect fitness, lurid torches in the early bonfires of Secession. I did not care to meet their eyes, for I could not remember a single man of them all who would be likely to love me, either wisely or too well. But the newspaper instinct was strong within me, and the journalist who deliberates is lost. My hesitancy resulted in writing for a roving commission to represent The Tribune in the Southwest. A few days after, I found the Managing Editor in his office, going through the great pile of letters the morning mail had brought him, with the wonderful rapidity which quick intuition, long experience, and natural fitness for that most delicate and onerous position alone can give. For the modern newspaper is a sort of intellectual iron-clad, upon which, while the Editorial Captain makes out the reports to his chief, the public, and entertains the guests in his elegant cabin, the leading column, and receives the credit for every broadside of type and every paper bullet of the brain poured into the enemy,—back out of sight is an Executive Officer, with little popular fame, who keeps the ship all right from hold to maintop, looks to every detail with sleepless vigilance, and whose life is a daily miracle of hard work. The Manager went through his mail, I think, at the rate of one letter per minute. He made final disposition of each when it came into his hand; acting upon the great truth, that if he laid one aside for future consideration, there would soon be a series of strata upon his groaning desk, which no mental geologist could fathom or classify. Some were ruthlessly thrown into the waste-basket. Others, with a lightning pencil-stroke, to indicate the type and style of printing, were placed on the pile for the composing-room.

"In view of the author's rich material, his well-known trustworthiness, and graphic descriptive powers, the publishers feel justified in predicting a work of unusual interest, containing more of the fact, incident, and romance of the war than any other which has yet appeared." NEW YORK TIMES The remarkable Civil War career of famous New York "Tribune" journalist, Albert D. Richardson, was packed with more action, intrigue, and danger than many of his colleagues. Like war correspondents today, Richardson reported from where the shells were flying and men were dying. He was also a Union spy. He reported from the south before the war and from "Bleeding Kansas" in the fifties. He met with and discussed the war with Abraham Lincoln before heading to Vicksburg. That's all here in his classic book. And in 1863, Richardson and the other famous "Tribune" correspondent, Junius Browne, were captured while trying to run the Confederate batteries protecting the river at Vicksburg. They spent 20 months in harrowing prison conditions until their dramatic and dangerous escape through enemy territory. It's a story that should be known by every American. Richardson aspired to great literary writing but along with the danger, there is plenty of wonderful humor. Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.

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1866 Edition (Copyright date is 1865) bound in full calf leather, ills. with engravings, 512 pages. A VG copy. Leather is split along the entire front spine seam and a quarter of the way up the rear. The boards are still attached and surprisingly firm. Leather is lightly rubbed at the corners. Inside is clean and tight with some light scattered foxing. Owner's name and date (Jan. 1, 1867) pencilled on the front fly.

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