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 127
... camps here , but none can compare with the 26th N.J. Col. Morrison has taken a great deal of pains to embellish the camp by having it laid out in blocks , all around the streets of which he has placed pine trees some twelve feet high ...
... camps here , but none can compare with the 26th N.J. Col. Morrison has taken a great deal of pains to embellish the camp by having it laid out in blocks , all around the streets of which he has placed pine trees some twelve feet high ...
Page 128
... camp is in reality what it purports to be - Camp Fairview , and I am reluctantly compelled to assert that although laboring evidently under the influence of an " eye - opener , ” the informant of your correspondent certainly did not ...
... camp is in reality what it purports to be - Camp Fairview , and I am reluctantly compelled to assert that although laboring evidently under the influence of an " eye - opener , ” the informant of your correspondent certainly did not ...
Page 129
... camp diseases , such as diarrhoea and rheumatism ; but a kind Providence has watched over us ; and though we have had tedious marches , and in wet and cold weather have made our camps , to Him we must look that we are still a regiment ...
... camp diseases , such as diarrhoea and rheumatism ; but a kind Providence has watched over us ; and though we have had tedious marches , and in wet and cold weather have made our camps , to Him we must look that we are still a regiment ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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