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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... wounded braves , the shrieks and groans of whom were frequently heart rending . As we entered one tent they had just amputated the leg of a wounded Pennsylvanian . The operation was performed at the thigh joint , and the subject of it ...
... wounded braves , the shrieks and groans of whom were frequently heart rending . As we entered one tent they had just amputated the leg of a wounded Pennsylvanian . The operation was performed at the thigh joint , and the subject of it ...
Page 115
... wounded and hospital stores at 3 A.M. , farther back to some more secure position . ... When we learned that the whole army was to be withdrawn to this side of the river , there were phantoms of Bull Run , and the Peninsular retreat ...
... wounded and hospital stores at 3 A.M. , farther back to some more secure position . ... When we learned that the whole army was to be withdrawn to this side of the river , there were phantoms of Bull Run , and the Peninsular retreat ...
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... wounded not able to do duty have been sent away , some to Potomac Creek and others to Washington , from whence I suppose some of them will be transferred to Newark hospitals . A few of those whose names I have forwarded have returned to ...
... wounded not able to do duty have been sent away , some to Potomac Creek and others to Washington , from whence I suppose some of them will be transferred to Newark hospitals . A few of those whose names I have forwarded have returned to ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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