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قراءة كتاب The Secret Service. The Field, The Dungeon, and The Escape
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The Secret Service. The Field, The Dungeon, and The Escape
THE
SECRET SERVICE,
THE FIELD, THE DUNGEON,
AND
THE ESCAPE.
Of moving accidents, by flood and field;
Of hairbreadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach;
Of being taken by the insolent foe,
And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence."
Othello.
BY
ALBERT D. RICHARDSON,
TRIBUNE CORRESPONDENT.
Hartford, Conn.,
AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY.
JONES BROS. & CO., PHILADELPHIA, PA., AND CINCINNATI, OHIO.
R. C. TREAT, CHICAGO, ILL.
1865.
Entered according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1865,
Albert D. Richardson,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District
of Connecticut.
TO
Her Memory
WHO WAS NEAREST AND DEAREST,
WHOSE LIFE WAS FULL OF BEAUTY AND OF PROMISE,
THIS VOLUME
IS TENDERLY INSCRIBED.
List of Illustrations.
- Facing Title-page. I.—Portrait of the Author
- Facing page 17
II.— A Group of Army Correspondents: Portraits of Messrs.
Charles C. Coffin, Boston Journal;
Junius H. Browne, New York Tribune;
Thomas W. Knox, New York Herald;
Richard T. Colburn, New York World;
L. L. Crounse, New York Times;
William E. Davis, Cincinnati Gazette, and
William D. Bickham, Cincinnati Commercial - Opposite page 83 III.—The Mississippi Convention viewed by a Tribune Correspondent
- Opposite page 281 IV.—Opening of the Battle of Antietam.—General Hooker
- V.—Facsimile of an Autograph Letter of President Lincoln
- Opposite page 343 VI.—The Capture, while running the Rebel Batteries at Vicksburg
- Opposite page 415 VII.—Interior View of a Hospital in the Salisbury Prison
- Opposite page 419 VIII.—The Massacre of Union Prisoners attempting to Escape from Salisbury, North Carolina
- Opposite page 441 IX.—Escaping Prisoners fed by Negroes in their Master's Barn
- Opposite page 471 X.—Fording a Stream
- Opposite page 489 XI.—Dan Ellis
- Opposite page 501 XII.—"The Nameless Heroine" piloting the Escaping Prisoners out of a Rebel Ambush
- Opposite page 512 XIII.—"The Nameless Heroine"
CONTENTS.
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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.
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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.