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[Illustration: _Photo by Brady._ _Eng^d by Geo E Perine N.Y._
Albert D. Richardson]




 THE
 SECRET SERVICE,
 THE FIELD, THE DUNGEON,
 AND
 THE ESCAPE.

 "Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances,
 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 Act of Congress, in the year 1865,
 BY 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.


 I.--PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR                         Facing Title-page.
 II.--A GROUP OF ARMY CORRESPONDENTS:                   Facing page 17
     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_
 III.--THE MISSISSIPPI CONVENTION VIEWED BY A         Opposite page 83
     TRIBUNE CORRESPONDENT
 IV.--OPENING OF THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM.--GENERAL    Opposite page 281
     HOOKER
 V.--FACSIMILE OF AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF PRESIDENT            page 321
     LINCOLN
 VI.--THE CAPTURE, WHILE RUNNING THE REBEL BATTERIES Opposite page 343
     AT VICKSBURG
 VII.--INTERIOR VIEW OF A HOSPITAL IN THE SALISBURY  Opposite page 415
     PRISON
 VIII.--THE MASSACRE OF UNION PRISONERS ATTEMPTING   Opposite page 419
     TO ESCAPE FROM SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA
 IX.--ESCAPING PRISONERS FED BY <DW64>s IN THEIR     Opposite page 441
     MASTER'S BARN
 X.--FORDING A STREAM                                Opposite page 471
 XI.--"THE NAMELESS HEROINE" PILOTING THE ESCAPING   Opposite page 501
     PRISONERS OUT OF A REBEL AMBUSH




CONTENTS.


 I.--THE SECRET SERVICE.
 CHAPTER I.                                                          17
     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.
 CHAPTER II.                                                         31
    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.
 CHAPTER III.                                                        43
     Association with Leading Secessionists.--Their Hatred of
     New England.--Admission to the Democratic Club.--Abuse of
     President Lincoln.--Sinking Buildings, Cellars and Walls
     Impossible.--Cemeteries above Ground.--Monument of a
     Pirate.--Canal Street.--The Great French Markets.--Dedication
     of a Secession Flag in the Catholic Church.--The Cotton
     Presses.--Visit to the Jackson Battle-ground