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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... South , from every wise , prudential and patriotic reason . ” Price believed that within six months a new government would be formed by the union of New Jersey and other " conservative ” Northern states with the South under the ...
... South , from every wise , prudential and patriotic reason . ” Price believed that within six months a new government would be formed by the union of New Jersey and other " conservative ” Northern states with the South under the ...
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... South . " As first one and then another Southern state followed South Carolina's exam- ple , Republicans along with a growing number of Democrats rallied to the Union cause . In early February 1861 , while delegates from seven states ...
... South . " As first one and then another Southern state followed South Carolina's exam- ple , Republicans along with a growing number of Democrats rallied to the Union cause . In early February 1861 , while delegates from seven states ...
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... South- ern workshop . For about two - thirds of a century the shoemakers of Newark shod the South , its planters and its plantation hands . . . . For generations the bulk of the carriages , saddlery , harnesses and clothing manufactured ...
... South- ern workshop . For about two - thirds of a century the shoemakers of Newark shod the South , its planters and its plantation hands . . . . For generations the bulk of the carriages , saddlery , harnesses and clothing manufactured ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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