"Peter Carlson is one of America’s greatest storytellers –
and this is his best story yet.
Funny, thrilling, tragic, and impossible to put down, Junius and Albert’s Adventures in the Confederacy
is a beautifully written, wondrous book."
--David Finkel, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Good Soldiers
and this is his best story yet.
Funny, thrilling, tragic, and impossible to put down, Junius and Albert’s Adventures in the Confederacy
is a beautifully written, wondrous book."
--David Finkel, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Good Soldiers
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A Fast-Paced Slice of History"Another irresistible story, engagingly told, from the pen of irresistible storyteller Peter Carlson. As with the best of non-fiction, it reads like a far-fetched novel." --Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for Smoking and Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir
"This is history as it really happened, not the tidy school book version, and Peter Carlson tells it with the drive and verve of a truly gifted narrator." --David Von Drehle, author of Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America’s Most Perilous Year "Peter Carlson's grave, propulsive, heroic and, slyly comic tale of two newspaper scribes who went deep into the Civil War—and lived to tell about it. A lost tale resurrected by a fine old newspaperman himself—and our hearts are better for it." --Paul Hendrickson, author of Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, And Lost
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Advance Praise for Junius and Albert
"A rollicking story of imprisonment and escape. Carlson has taken full advantage of abundant material to deliver a vivid chronicle of two working Civil War reporters and their spectacular odyssey." --Kirkus
"This absorbing story of two Northern war reporters who were captured by the Confederates at Vicksburg demonstrates that for the Civil War, truth is indeed more thrilling than fiction. The accounts of the essential help the escapees received from slaves and Southern white Unionists provides key insights on Southern society."
--James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom
"The magic of Peter Carlson’s writing has always been his knack of getting out of the way and making you feel as if you’re telling the story yourself. In some mysterious Twain-like way he creates the illusion that it has all happened to you, that you have suffered and gloried alongside these men and women. This book has the drama and poignance of a novel." --Henry Allen, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of What It Felt Like
"Modern journalists scrambling to file before deadline have nothing on Junius Browne and Albert Richardson. While working as Civil War correspondents for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune, the duo were captured during the Battle of Vicksburg. Former Washington Post reporter Carlson (K Blows Top) relates their ensuing odyssey in lively detail, from stints in multiple prisons, to an encounter with a certified pirate, a secret society called the “Heroes of America” and an escape and flight over snowy mountains. Civil War buffs and historians of journalism will revel in this thrilling tale of two raucous, self-described 'knights of the quill.' " --Publishers Weekly
"This absorbing story of two Northern war reporters who were captured by the Confederates at Vicksburg demonstrates that for the Civil War, truth is indeed more thrilling than fiction. The accounts of the essential help the escapees received from slaves and Southern white Unionists provides key insights on Southern society."
--James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom
"The magic of Peter Carlson’s writing has always been his knack of getting out of the way and making you feel as if you’re telling the story yourself. In some mysterious Twain-like way he creates the illusion that it has all happened to you, that you have suffered and gloried alongside these men and women. This book has the drama and poignance of a novel." --Henry Allen, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of What It Felt Like
"Modern journalists scrambling to file before deadline have nothing on Junius Browne and Albert Richardson. While working as Civil War correspondents for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune, the duo were captured during the Battle of Vicksburg. Former Washington Post reporter Carlson (K Blows Top) relates their ensuing odyssey in lively detail, from stints in multiple prisons, to an encounter with a certified pirate, a secret society called the “Heroes of America” and an escape and flight over snowy mountains. Civil War buffs and historians of journalism will revel in this thrilling tale of two raucous, self-described 'knights of the quill.' " --Publishers Weekly