Top News from the Franklin Observer is an internet newsletter sent via email by Alan Earls. For the past three days I've been reading about Albert Richardson, a local man who left town and lived quite the adventurist's life. He lived during the Civil War and worked as a journalist. He was captured and put in a Confederate prison. He escaped and was helped by a network of people who called themselves the Sons of America.
One of these helpers, was a woman disguised as a man. Her name was Melvina Stevens.
