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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... November , men of the Twenty - sixth nursed the hope that a nine - month regiment could hardly be of any real military value . Such at least was the reasoning of many . Yet the exigencies of war defy reason and the shortening days of ...
... November , men of the Twenty - sixth nursed the hope that a nine - month regiment could hardly be of any real military value . Such at least was the reasoning of many . Yet the exigencies of war defy reason and the shortening days of ...
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... November 9 , 1860 . 9. Newark Daily Journal , November 9 , 1860 ( hereinafter cited as Journal ) . 10. Cunningham , New Jersey , p . 175 . 11. Journal , December 19 , 1860 . 12. Ibid . 13. The Somerset Messenger , January 3 , 1861 . 14 ...
... November 9 , 1860 . 9. Newark Daily Journal , November 9 , 1860 ( hereinafter cited as Journal ) . 10. Cunningham , New Jersey , p . 175 . 11. Journal , December 19 , 1860 . 12. Ibid . 13. The Somerset Messenger , January 3 , 1861 . 14 ...
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... November 7 , 1862 . 7. Ibid . 8. Mercury , November 17 , 1862 . 9. Ibid . 10. Advertiser , November 13 , 1862 . 11. Ibid . 12. Ibid . 13. Mercury , November 17 , 1862 . 14. Ibid . 15. Advertiser , November 17 , 1862 . 16. Mercury , November ...
... November 7 , 1862 . 7. Ibid . 8. Mercury , November 17 , 1862 . 9. Ibid . 10. Advertiser , November 13 , 1862 . 11. Ibid . 12. Ibid . 13. Mercury , November 17 , 1862 . 14. Ibid . 15. Advertiser , November 17 , 1862 . 16. Mercury , November ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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