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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... victory . This would be equivalent to 50,000 men . There is nothing , so far as I can see , humanly speaking , that this army so much needs as confidence , hope . Men may disguise the fact , but they cannot deny it , that the army is ...
... victory . This would be equivalent to 50,000 men . There is nothing , so far as I can see , humanly speaking , that this army so much needs as confidence , hope . Men may disguise the fact , but they cannot deny it , that the army is ...
Page 163
... victory he so carefully planned . Yet to the astonishment of his commanders and the confusion of his troops , he ordered his men back toward Chancellorsville to prepare a defensive position . " From that time the whole situation was ...
... victory he so carefully planned . Yet to the astonishment of his commanders and the confusion of his troops , he ordered his men back toward Chancellorsville to prepare a defensive position . " From that time the whole situation was ...
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... victory seemed likely . From the confused and in some respects conflicting accounts which reach us from the main scene of battle , near Chancellorsville , it is difficult to arrive at a correct judgment as to the results of the ...
... victory seemed likely . From the confused and in some respects conflicting accounts which reach us from the main scene of battle , near Chancellorsville , it is difficult to arrive at a correct judgment as to the results of the ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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