{"product_id":"9781610393799","title":"Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey","description":"\u003cp\u003eJunius Browne and Albert Richardson covered the Civil War for the New York Tribune until Confederates captured them as they tried to sneak past Vicksburg on a hay barge. Shuffled from one Rebel prison to another, they escaped and trekked across the snow-covered Appalachians with the help of slaves and pro-Union bushwhackers. Their amazing, long-forgotten odyssey is one of the great escape stories in American history, packed with drama, courage, horrors and heroics, plus moments of antic comedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn their long, strange adventure, Junius and Albert encountered an astonishing variety of American characters—Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, Rebel con men and Union spies, a Confederate pirate-turned-playwright, a sadistic hangman nicknamed “the Anti-Christ,” a secret society called the Heroes of America, a Union guerrilla convinced that God protected him from Confederate bullets, and a mysterious teenage girl who rode to their rescue at just the right moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Carlson, author of the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eK Blows Top\u003c\/i\u003e, has, in \u003ci\u003eJunius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy\u003c\/i\u003e, written a gripping story about the lifesaving power of friendship and a surreal voyage through the bloody battlefields, dark prisons, and cold mountains of the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PublicAffairs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036534948080,"sku":"9781610393799","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781610393799_p0.jpg?v=1763837648","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781610393799","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}