Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacyby Peter Carlson | |
| Category: |
"U.S. History - Military" |
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| Pages: | 253 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Date Added: | 03/29/2023 |
| Date Read: | 12/14/2023 |
| Notes: | Subtitle: A Civil War Odyssey During the Civil War, two reporters from the New York Tribune, were captured while trying to get to Grant's army south of Vicksburg. They were paroled and expected to be returned to the north quickly, but the Tribune was a strongly abolitionist paper and the Confederates decided to make a statement. The two men were shunted from prison to prison around the south, sometimes treated well, but often mixed in with the cruelty and suffering that was SOP in southern prisons. Finally they'd had enough, and with the help of a sympathetic lawyer, escaped from Salisbury Prison in North Carolina and, over the next month made their way through the winter mountains, getting help from Union sympathizers and slaves. Their stories were famous when they finally made it to freedom. Browne married and had a successful career as a writer. Richardson, whose wife had died while he was in prison, fell in love with a woman who was married to a drunk and abusive man. The woman divorced her husband and was planning on marrying Richardson when the husband walked into the newsroom and killed him. He died a few days later, but not before he and the woman had a death-bed marriage. |
| My Rating: | 8 |
Reviewed by Roger on 2023-12-14 06:49:41
