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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... later an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court , began his career as Kinney's man in Trenton . Kinney occasionally dabbled in Whig politics , although characteristically he preferred the role of observer . In 1840 he was ...
... later an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court , began his career as Kinney's man in Trenton . Kinney occasionally dabbled in Whig politics , although characteristically he preferred the role of observer . In 1840 he was ...
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... later years , and left New York to work his way across much of the eastern and southern United States as a tramp printer . In the fall of 1857 he happened to be in Mobile , Alabama , where William Walker , the famous filibuster , was ...
... later years , and left New York to work his way across much of the eastern and southern United States as a tramp printer . In the fall of 1857 he happened to be in Mobile , Alabama , where William Walker , the famous filibuster , was ...
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... ( later known as the Eighty - third ) , Corps d'Afrique . After several weeks in New Orleans , Martindale's regiment was ordered to Baton Rouge , Louisiana , where he was placed in charge of the commissary department . Later the regiment ...
... ( later known as the Eighty - third ) , Corps d'Afrique . After several weeks in New Orleans , Martindale's regiment was ordered to Baton Rouge , Louisiana , where he was placed in charge of the commissary department . Later the regiment ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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