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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 archives. A place with buried treasures all over it. Theyve got a lot of boxes here, boxes filled with little folders ....
Lets give markets a round of applause. [inaudible] thank you very much. Ill see you other than. Thank you. [inaudible conversations] you are watching booktv, nonfiction authors and books every weekend on cspan2. You are watching booktv. Next, Peter Carlson recalls the capture journalists Albert Richardson and Junius Browne by Confederate Forces at the battle of vicksburg. The reporters were covering the war for the new tribune anderson to multiple confederate prisons over 20 months until the escaped and made their way across the appalachians with the assistance of union sympathizers. This is about 50 minutes. Thank you, david. Thrilled to be at the national archives. To be back your i should say. Ive written three books and have researched all of them at the na ....
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 to prove that your boss is full of baloney. This happened in 2010. I was hired as an editor at American History magazine, and i immediately made a suggestion to the honcho of the place who just hired me. I said, the 150 the anniversary of the civil war is coming up. I dont we take a couple pages in each issue and run a newspaper story about ....