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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... Copperhead leaders , who had before Sumter bid the Southern states depart in peace , became more strident as the war continued . Former Governor Rod- man Price , who had once envisioned New Jersey as part of a Southern Confed- eracy ...
... Copperhead leaders , who had before Sumter bid the Southern states depart in peace , became more strident as the war continued . Former Governor Rod- man Price , who had once envisioned New Jersey as part of a Southern Confed- eracy ...
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... Copperhead outside of the State Legislature . ” In speeches made throughout the state in 1862 and 1863 , Burr maintained that the federal government had no power to make war upon a state for any reason . " Every Jersey man in favor of ...
... Copperhead outside of the State Legislature . ” In speeches made throughout the state in 1862 and 1863 , Burr maintained that the federal government had no power to make war upon a state for any reason . " Every Jersey man in favor of ...
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... Copperhead . He had not sent his letters to the Daily Journal because he disdained the Peace Democrats as much as he did the Abolitionists . With the Advertiser printing the chaplain's letters , that left open only the columns of the ...
... Copperhead . He had not sent his letters to the Daily Journal because he disdained the Peace Democrats as much as he did the Abolitionists . With the Advertiser printing the chaplain's letters , that left open only the columns of the ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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