Four years in Seccessia, by Junius Henri Browne

Junius Henri Browne (14 October 1833

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- 2 April 1902

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Biography

He was a graduate of Saint Xavier College,

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. In 1861, he became war correspondent for the ''

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'', was wounded at

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, and taken prisoner while engaged in an abortive expedition to run the

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batteries. Browne was imprisoned for 20 months in seven different prisons, confined successively at Vicksburg,

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, and

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, prisons. On December 18, 1864, Browne escaped from Salisbury, along with journalist Albert Deane Richardson. They traveled together 400 miles through hostile country, and reached the

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lines on January 14, 1865. His list of Union soldiers who died at Salisbury, published in the ''Tribune'', is the only authentic account of their fate. After the war, he served as correspondent of the ''New York Tribune'', ''

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'', and other journals, and contributed many articles to leading periodicals. His best-known works are ''Four Years in Secessia'' (1865), ''The Great Metropolis: A Mirror of New York'' (1869), and ''Sights and Sensations in Europe'' (1872). A series of articles on women, which he wrote for the ''Galaxy'', created a sensation in literary circles. His ''Four Years in Secessia'' has descriptions of various incidents of the

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and information concerning the conditions of the Southern prisons and the Northern soldier confined in them. In August 2013, a new book about Browne and Richardson, ''Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy'' by journalist and author Peter Carlson, was published by

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Browne, Junius Henri 1833 births 1902 deaths American male journalists 19th-century American writers People of New York (state) in the American Civil War American war correspondents New-York Tribune personnel The New York Times writers 19th-century American male writers Xavier University alumni