Der Geheime Dienst: Das Feldlager, Das Gefängnisz Und Die Flucht
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A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant: Illustrated by Thirty-Two Engravings, Fac-Similes of Letters From Grant, Lincoln, Sheridan, Buckner, Lee, Etc.
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Beyond the Mississippi: From the Great River to the Great Ocean : Life and Adventure On the Prairies, Mountains, and Pacific Coast
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A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant (Classic Reprint)
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IN 1861, when the guns of Sumter awoke the country, a resigned army captain, in his fortieth year, was living at Galena, Illinois. His civil life of Seven years had been a hard struggle. Though healthy, temperate, and most industrious, he had found serious difficulty in supporting the wife and children to whom he was devotedly attached. He had failed as a farmer, and as a real-estate agent, and was now clerk in his father's leather store, at a salary Of eight hundred dollars per year.
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Albert Deane Richardson was a well-known American journalist, Union spy, and author.
Background
Albert Deane Richardson was born on October 6, 1833 in Franklin, Massachussets, the younger of the two sons of Elisha Richardson by his second wife, Harriet Blake. The Richardsons had lived in Norfolk County, Massachussets, for five or six generations. Albert's father, a farmer, had been a schoolmate of Horace Mann, was a friend and parishioner of Nathaniel Emmons, and lived his entire life within a few miles of the farm that he had inherited from his father. Albert's brother, Charles Addison Richardson, was for many years editor of the Boston Congregationalist.
Education
Albert attended the public schools and the Holliston Academy, felt no liking for farm work.
Career
For a few terms taught schools in Medway and other nearby towns. Although he is represented as having been somewhat of a Horatio Alger hero, he did not breathe freely in the atmosphere of the old homestead, and when eighteen years old he set out for the West and got as far as Pittsburgh. There he taught school, worked on a newspaper, studied shorthand, wrote farces for Barney Williams, the actor, and - with some qualms of conscience - appeared a few times on the stage.
In 1852 he went on to Cincinnati, where he remained for five years, writing for various newspapers and acquiring local renown as an able, alert, energetic writer.
His longing for Western adventure still unsatisfied, he took his family in 1857 to Sumner, Kansas, near Atchison, but spent much of his time at Leavenworth, Lawrence, and Topeka as correspondent for the Boston Journal.
He served for short periods as adjutant-general of the Territory and secretary of the legislature and campaigned in behalf of free soil. In 1859 he accompanied Horace Greeley and Henry Villard to Pike's Peak and returned by himself through the Southwest, which was then little-known territory. Thereafter, until his death, he was connected with the New York Daily Tribune. He gained great acclaim a year later by going to New Orleans as secret correspondent of his paper. It was a dangerous assignment, but Richardson acquitted himself well and returned safely after more than one close escape from lynching. He then became the chief correspondent for the Tribune in the theatre of war.
On May 3, 1863, while attempting, with Junius Henri Browne of the Tribune and Richard T. Colburn of the New York World, to run past the Confederate batteries at Vicksburg in a tugboat, he was captured and spent the next eighteen months in various Confederate prisons.
On December 18, 1864, he and Browne made their escape from Salisbury and four weeks later arrived at the Union lines near Knoxville, Tennessee.
Meanwhile his wife and an infant daughter, whom he had never seen, died at his parents' home in Massachusetts. In the spring of 1865 he went to California with Schuyler Colfax, Samuel Bowles, and Lieut. -Gov. William Bross of Illinois.
After his death his widow collected his fugitive writings as Garnered Sheaves (1871). His end came with tragic suddenness.
In 1869 he became engaged to marry Abby Sage McFarland, who had recently been divorced from her husband, Daniel McFarland, a confirmed drunkard with pronounced paranoiac tendencies.
On November 25, 1869, McFarland shot Richardson at his desk in the Tribune office. Richardson died a week later at the Astor House.
Achievements
Among his works is his noted biography of Ulysses S. Grant.
From his newspaper correspondence he compiled two books, The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape (1865) and Beyond the Mississippi (1866), which were sold by subscription and were enormously popular. His style was clear, concrete, and popular in tone. His Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant (1868) was written on Partonian lines and was much superior to the ordinary campaign biography.
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Connections
In April 1855 he married Mary Louise Pease of Cincinnati, by whom he had five children. In 1869 he became engaged to marry Abby Sage McFarland. On his deathbed he was married to Mrs. McFarland, the ceremony being performed by Henry Ward Beecher and Octavius Brooks Frothingham.
