Junius Henri Browne was an American journalist.

Biography

He was a graduate of Saint Xavier College, Cincinnati. In 1861, he became war correspondent for the New York Tribune

New York Tribune

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, was wounded at Fort Donelson

Battle of Fort Donelson

The Battle of Fort Donelson was fought from February 11 to February 16, 1862, in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. The capture of the fort by Union forces opened the Cumberland River as an avenue for the invasion of the South. The success elevated Brig. Gen. Ulysses S...

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

Vicksburg

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 batteries. After an imprisonment of 20 months in seven different prisons, confined successively at Vicksburg, Jackson

Jackson, Mississippi

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, Atlanta

Atlanta, Georgia

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, Richmond

Richmond, Virginia

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, and Salisbury, North Carolina

Salisbury, North Carolina

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, prisons, he eluded his guard at Salisbury, traveled 400 miles through a hostile country, and reached the Union

Union Army

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 lines on 14 January 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, Times 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 American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

and information concerning the conditions of the Southern prisons and the Northern soldier confined in them.