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 103
... road to Richmond , he argued . Burnside would have none of it . His carefully drawn plans called for the army to cross the river on pontoon bridges ; any advance , he insisted , must wait their arrival . Stored near Harper's Ferry , the ...
... road to Richmond , he argued . Burnside would have none of it . His carefully drawn plans called for the army to cross the river on pontoon bridges ; any advance , he insisted , must wait their arrival . Stored near Harper's Ferry , the ...
Page 182
... road in 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 ...
... road in 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 ...
Page 186
... road over which the pontoons had passed . We had travelled that road before , we knew it well . At the edge of the plateau it turns sharply and descends by a dug way in the steep bank parallel with the stream to a small piece of open ...
... road over which the pontoons had passed . We had travelled that road before , we knew it well . At the edge of the plateau it turns sharply and descends by a dug way in the steep bank parallel with the stream to a small piece of open ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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