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Name the famous "spy" who published a list of Union soldiers who died at Salisbury Prison in North Carolina, the only authentic account of the time.
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On the other hand, this book: http://civilwarhandbook.nfshost.com/cms/index.php?page=bivouac-of-the-dead
by Mark Hughes claims to have found the Salisbury Hospital record listing the deaths of 3,504 Union soldiers who died at Salisbury. But your guy is probably Albert Deane Richardson of the New York Tribune who escaped from the prison and wrote articles about it. From Wiki:
Richardson and Browne were imprisoned for 20 months in seven different prisons, confined successively at Vicksburg,Jackson,Atlanta,Richmond, and Salisbury, North Carolina, prisons. On December 18, 1864, after 20 months of imprisonment, he escaped from Salisbury, along with Browne. They traveled together more than 400 miles through hostile country, and reached the Unionlines 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.

Richardson was one of the best known reporters of his age, due to his abilities as a writer and his services (during theAmerican Civil War) as a Union spy.
 
Junius Henri Browne

Edit - There is a Wikipedia article about Junius Henri Browne and a Wikipedia article about Albert Deane Richardson. Each of the articles contains the statement "His list of Union soldiers who died at Salisbury, published in the Tribune, is the only authentic account of their fate."

Although the Trivia Master and most players seem to feel that the statement referred to a list prepared by Richardson, I will give credit for Browne as well.

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