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. i've written three books and have researched all of them at the national archives. it's a place of buried treasures all over it. they got a lot of boxes here, boxes filled with little folders filled with papers, and there's 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 don't have those holy cow experiences all that often, but when they come, it's really a thrill for a researcher, and that's what keeps researchers going. so this book exists today because i gave i