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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... miles from Falmouth . There it waited , knowing nothing of Burnside's plan other than rumor and surmise . On the evening before the long march began the Twenty - sixth received orders to be ready to leave camp at dawn with knapsacks ...
... miles from Falmouth . There it waited , knowing nothing of Burnside's plan other than rumor and surmise . On the evening before the long march began the Twenty - sixth received orders to be ready to leave camp at dawn with knapsacks ...
Page 98
... miles from Aquia Creek Landing where we are procuring our supplies , and some 16 miles from Fredericksburg . We are now in the left wing of the army under Gen. [ William B. ] Franklin . The rainy season has commenced and the roads are ...
... miles from Aquia Creek Landing where we are procuring our supplies , and some 16 miles from Fredericksburg . We are now in the left wing of the army under Gen. [ William B. ] Franklin . The rainy season has commenced and the roads are ...
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... miles closer to Fredericksburg , wrote Cummings , camping that night about a mile to the west of the Aquia Creek railroad . The weather was very cold , and the morning of the 5th found us shivering in a fierce storm of sleet and snow ...
... miles closer to Fredericksburg , wrote Cummings , camping that night about a mile to the west of the Aquia Creek railroad . The weather was very cold , and the morning of the 5th found us shivering in a fierce storm of sleet and snow ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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