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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... charge it through a ravine which led to its rear , but the General pointed to the heights as more worthy game , the ... charge a battery situated on a hill a little to the right of a natural indentation on the hillside running parallel ...
... charge it through a ravine which led to its rear , but the General pointed to the heights as more worthy game , the ... charge a battery situated on a hill a little to the right of a natural indentation on the hillside running parallel ...
Page 182
... charge of the knapsack guard , while our brave boys followed their idolized Colonel , who volunteered to lead the desperate charge on the steep heights to the left of the Fredericksburg plank road ? It was afterward ascertained that the ...
... charge of the knapsack guard , while our brave boys followed their idolized Colonel , who volunteered to lead the desperate charge on the steep heights to the left of the Fredericksburg plank road ? It was afterward ascertained that the ...
Page 188
... charge up the river bank straight at the earthwork . It was , wrote Sergeant Dodd , “ all quickly over . ' The cannonade , which ceased only when our charge began , had half buried and almost wholly paralysed the defenders of the little ...
... charge up the river bank straight at the earthwork . It was , wrote Sergeant Dodd , “ all quickly over . ' The cannonade , which ceased only when our charge began , had half buried and almost wholly paralysed the defenders of the little ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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