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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Myth, Reality, and the Media in Civil War New Jersey Alan A. Siegel. 1 The Northernmost of the Border States New Jersey was the only Free State to reject Abraham Lincoln in both the 1860 and 1864 presidential elections . Lincoln lost the ...
Myth, Reality, and the Media in Civil War New Jersey Alan A. Siegel. 1 The Northernmost of the Border States New Jersey was the only Free State to reject Abraham Lincoln in both the 1860 and 1864 presidential elections . Lincoln lost the ...
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... Jersey's proper place was with the South . As late as the first week of April 1861 , former New Jersey Governor Rodman C. Price virtu- ally urged secession . " I say emphatically , " he wrote , " [ that New Jersey ] should go with the ...
... Jersey's proper place was with the South . As late as the first week of April 1861 , former New Jersey Governor Rodman C. Price virtu- ally urged secession . " I say emphatically , " he wrote , " [ that New Jersey ] should go with the ...
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... Jersey , ” Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 83 , no . 4 ( October 1965 ) : 223 ( hereinafter cited as Tandler ) . 2. Ibid . 3. Ibid . 4. Thomas Fleming , New Jersey , A Bicentennial History , ( New York , 1977 ) , p ...
... Jersey , ” Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 83 , no . 4 ( October 1965 ) : 223 ( hereinafter cited as Tandler ) . 2. Ibid . 3. Ibid . 4. Thomas Fleming , New Jersey , A Bicentennial History , ( New York , 1977 ) , p ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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