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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Page 59
... York Evening Post and Harper's Weekly after the Mercury folded , Foster's newspaper credentials were supurb ; it was his uncompromising partisanship that surely must have made Kinney swallow hard . ” The Journal's correspondent called ...
... York Evening Post and Harper's Weekly after the Mercury folded , Foster's newspaper credentials were supurb ; it was his uncompromising partisanship that surely must have made Kinney swallow hard . ” The Journal's correspondent called ...
Page 63
... York and James Rivers known as the Penin- sula , attacking the Confederate capital at its least protected point . Instead , with over 100,000 troops under his command , the " Young Napoleon " wasted the summer and his army in a ...
... York and James Rivers known as the Penin- sula , attacking the Confederate capital at its least protected point . Instead , with over 100,000 troops under his command , the " Young Napoleon " wasted the summer and his army in a ...
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... York City for a conference with the governors of Pennsylvania and New York , carrying with him a desperate appeal from the president . “ [ L ] et the country give us a hundred thousand new troops in the shortest possible time , " he ...
... York City for a conference with the governors of Pennsylvania and New York , carrying with him a desperate appeal from the president . “ [ L ] et the country give us a hundred thousand new troops in the shortest possible time , " he ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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