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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... Washington . Lincoln needed a man who could bring order out of confusion , who could put together in reasonable time an army to invade Virginia . McClel- lan , who had spent the early war months successfully chasing Confederates in ...
... Washington . Lincoln needed a man who could bring order out of confusion , who could put together in reasonable time an army to invade Virginia . McClel- lan , who had spent the early war months successfully chasing Confederates in ...
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... Washington in the weeks following the Union victory at Antietam was a revelation to the Jerseyans , most of whom knew of civil war only through the newspapers . Washington's hospitals and churches , even the insane asylum , were filled ...
... Washington in the weeks following the Union victory at Antietam was a revelation to the Jerseyans , most of whom knew of civil war only through the newspapers . Washington's hospitals and churches , even the insane asylum , were filled ...
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... Washington , Hooker began shifting his troops to the right , up the Rappahannock in a line parallel with Lee's force . The Twenty - sixth New Jersey's role in what one war correspondent called " the boldest reconnaissance of the war ...
... Washington , Hooker began shifting his troops to the right , up the Rappahannock in a line parallel with Lee's force . The Twenty - sixth New Jersey's role in what one war correspondent called " the boldest reconnaissance of the war ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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