Albert D. Richardson

Infobox Person
name = Albert Deane Richardson


caption = Portrait from "The Secret Service" (1865).
birth_date = birth date|1833|10|6|mf=y
birth_place = Franklin, Massachusetts
dead = dead
death_date = death date and age|1869|12|2|1833|10|6|mf=y
death_place = New York City, New York

Albert Deane Richardson (October 6, 1833 - December 2, 1869) was a well-known American journalist, Union spy, and author.

Timeline

*Born in Franklin, Massachusetts, Oct. 6, 1833
*Obtained first job with newspaper, "Pittsburgh Journal", 1851.
*Married Mary Louise Pease, April 1855.
*Correspondent for the "Boston Journal", 1857.
*Edited "The Western Mountaineer" of Golden City, Colorado, 1860.
*Journalist for the "New York Daily Tribune".
*Captured by the Confederates at Vicksburg, May 3, 1863.
*Wife and daughter died.
*Escaped Salisbury, NC, prison, December 18, 1864.
*Shot by Daniel McFarland, March 14th, 1867.
*Wrote "Through to the Pacific" for the "New York Tribune", May-June, 1869.
*Shot again by Daniel McFarland, November 25, 1869.
*Married Abby Sage McFarland, November, 1869; marriage performed by Henry Ward Beecher.
*Died December 2, 1869 (McFarland acquitted in a sensational trial).

Books

*"The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape". American Publishing Company; Hartford, CT; 1865.
*"Beyond the Mississippi, From the Great River to the Great Ocean". American Publishing Company; Hartford, CT; 1867 (reprint edition, June 1, 1967, by Johnson Reprint Corp, ISBN 0-384-50670-4 ).
*"A Personal History of Ulysses S Grant". American Publishing Company; Hartford, CT; 1868.
*"Garnered Sheaves". Columbian Book Company; Hartford, CT; 1871 (a collection of his writings published posthumously by his wife).