Albert D. Richardson’s The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape is a celebrated Civil War memoir by a correspondent for the New York Tribune. Richardson reported from the front, was captured, imprisoned in the South, and made a dramatic escape.
His narrative blends war reporting with a gripping personal adventure of captivity and flight. A best-seller in its day, it remains a vivid record of journalism and survival during the war. This edition is a clean, public-domain text prepared for comfortable reading. Download the free EPUB of this classic correspondent’s memoir.