For the Glory of the Union: Myth, Reality, and the Media in Civil War New JerseyFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984 - 231 pages American newspapers during the War Between the States were intensely partisan and reported the war news with strong biases. This intriguing study in the manipulation of the news follows the account of the military adventures of the Twenty-Sixth New Jersey Infantry, a nine-month volunteer regiment raised in and around Newark. |
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... civil rights for Blacks were the chief programs advocated by the Radicals . The Democrats were similarly divided . Small in number , War Democrats supported administration measures to defeat the Confederacy , cooperating with Union ...
... civil rights for Blacks were the chief programs advocated by the Radicals . The Democrats were similarly divided . Small in number , War Democrats supported administration measures to defeat the Confederacy , cooperating with Union ...
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... civil institutions [ must ] take the place of the destructive and revolutionary theories of the present day . ” + After Lincoln , the Republicans , and the war , Fuller's favorite adversary was the Daily Mercury , for which he reserved ...
... civil institutions [ must ] take the place of the destructive and revolutionary theories of the present day . ” + After Lincoln , the Republicans , and the war , Fuller's favorite adversary was the Daily Mercury , for which he reserved ...
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... civil and military : " If this be treason , make the most of it . 9959 Federal authorities were careful to deny Fuller the imprisonment and conse- quent martyrdom he so obviously courted . After he was indicted , arrested , and released ...
... civil and military : " If this be treason , make the most of it . 9959 Federal authorities were careful to deny Fuller the imprisonment and conse- quent martyrdom he so obviously courted . After he was indicted , arrested , and released ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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