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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... never be destroyed : [ D ] oes the conceited Davis imagine for a moment , that this great drama , which has its opening in the port of Charleston is to have its consummation and end there also ? Never , never . The gallant little ...
... never be destroyed : [ D ] oes the conceited Davis imagine for a moment , that this great drama , which has its opening in the port of Charleston is to have its consummation and end there also ? Never , never . The gallant little ...
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... never ceased to charge us with being a traitor of the deepest dye , who have incessantly abused us in the vilest ... never seem to favor a measure which we regard as utterly wrong , however others may see fit to trim their speech to the ...
... never ceased to charge us with being a traitor of the deepest dye , who have incessantly abused us in the vilest ... never seem to favor a measure which we regard as utterly wrong , however others may see fit to trim their speech to the ...
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... Never before have I seen the virtue of temperance . . . reign so supreme on New Year's day . Some of the men acknowledged that they never before entered upon the second day of a new year with such clear heads and furless tongues as Jan ...
... Never before have I seen the virtue of temperance . . . reign so supreme on New Year's day . Some of the men acknowledged that they never before entered upon the second day of a new year with such clear heads and furless tongues as Jan ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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