{"product_id":"2940158069246","title":"The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape (Expanded, Annotated)","description":"\"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, April 1865\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was also a Union spy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers, tablets, and smartphones. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBe sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.","brand":"Big Byte Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47115601019120,"sku":"2940158069246","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940158069246_p0.jpg?v=1764109378","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940158069246","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}