Junius 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.
On 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.
Peter
Carlson, author of the critically acclaimed K Blows
Top, has, in Junius and Albert’s Adventures in the
Confederacy, 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.
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