During the Civil War, as a war correspondent, Albert became an acquaintance of General Ulysses S. Grant. [5273, p.42] After the war he wrote a book about Grant: “A Personal History of Ulysses S Grant” (1868). https://books.google.com/books?id=0G1LAAAAYAAJ

In May, 1863, Albert, along with a few other correspondents, was captured by Confederate soldiers and taken prisoner. He expected to be released as part of a noncombatant prisoner exchange, but instead was placed in Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia. After 4 months he was moved to Castle Thunder. After 5 months there, he was moved to Salisbury, North Carolina, February, 1864. He was still there when his wife died. His daughter, Mary Louisa, also died while he was in prison, but she had also been born after his capture, so he never saw her. In October, 1864, conditions at Salisbury suddenly became orders of magnitude worse, with the addition of at least 9,000 more prisoners. It may have been comparable to Andersonville. Luckily, on 18 Dec 1864, Albert and three others managed to escape, taking with them a list of 1500 men who had died at Salisbury. In 1865 he published a book about his war experiences: “The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape”. [5273, p.60-73], [5316]

On two separate occasions, Daniel McFARLAND attempted to shoot Albert, with the first attempt in 1867, which resulted in only a flesh wound, and the second, in 1869, resulted in Albert’s death about a week later, just 60 hours after marrying Abby. [4663, p.22, 24], [4690], [5273, p.1, 127]

Albert had a brother, Charles A. RICHARDSON. [5024], [5273, p.10]

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_D._Richardson