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Lifetime: 1833 - 1869 Passed: ≈ 155 years ago

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Albert Richardson

Books by Albert Richardson

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Secret Service

History Memoir War
War Escape Espionage Civil War Union Memoir Journalist Mississippi Confederate Prisoner of War Undercover Vicksburg

Secret Service is a memoir written by Albert Richardson, a reporter for the New York Tribune. During the Civil War, Richardson volunteered to go undercover in the American south to report on the secession crisis. After the war broke out, he became a...