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For a complete schedule, visit booktv. Org. Youre watching booktv. Next, Peter Carlson recalls the capture of journalists Albert Richardson and Junius Browne by Confederate Forces at the battle of vicksburg. The reporters were sent to multiple confederate prisons over 20 months until they escaped and made their way across the appalachians with the assistance of Union Sympathizers. This is about 50 minutes. [applause] thank you, david. Im thrilled to be here at the national archives. To be back here, i should say. Ive written three books, and i have researched all of them at the national archiv...

It is good to be here at the national archives. To be back here i should say. I have researched all of my books at the national archives. Is a place of buried treasures they have a lot of boxes here filled with little folders filled with papers in the stories headed and escapers if you listen closely you may have somebody take a piece of paper upstairs and read it to a head yell holy cow. We dont have those that often the when they come it is what keeps the researches going. This book exists because i gave in to the deep dark desire that lurks in the depth with the human soul and researched th...

They got a lot of boxes here, boxes filled with little folders filled with papers, and theres a lot of stories hidden in those papers. In fact, if you get real quiet and you listen real closely, you just might hear somebody take a piece of paper out of the box upstairs and read it and go, holy cow. You dont have those holy cow experiences all that often, but when they come, its really a thrill for a researcher, and thats what keeps researchers going. So this book exists today because i gave into one of those deep, dark desires that lurks in the depths of the human soul. I refer to the desire t...

Box upstairs and read it and go, holy cow you dont have holy cow experiences often, but when they come, its really a thrill for researchers, and that keeps us going. This book exists today because i gave in to one of those deep dark desires that lurks in the depths of the human soul. I refer to the desire to prove that your boss is full of bolonga. This happened in 2010. I was hired as a editor at American History magazine, and i immediately made a suggestion to the honcho of the place who just hired me. I said, the 150th anniversary of the civil war is coming up. Why dont we take a couple pag...