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 114
... 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 When we learned that the whole army was to be withdrawn to this side of the river , there were phantoms of Bull Run , and the Peninsular retreat ...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 When we learned that the whole army was to be withdrawn to this side of the river , there were phantoms of Bull Run , and the Peninsular retreat ...
Page 177
... 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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Adjutant Aquia Creek army batteries battle Battle of Fredericksburg boys brigade Bruce Catton Bull Run Burnside Burnside's called Camp Frelinghuysen campaign Captain Chancellorsville Chaplain Morrill cheer Civil Colonel Morrison command Confederate Congar Copperhead Corps cross Daily Advertiser Daily Journal Daily Mercury December Democratic Dodd draft duty editor elected enemy enlisted Essex County February field fight fire Fredericksburg front heights hereinafter cited hill History honor Hooker Ibid Irvington Jersey Historical Society Jersey's June Kinney Lee's Lieutenant Lincoln Major Marcus L Martindale McClellan McIntee Mercury military months morning Morrill's Mud March nearly Newark Newark Daily newspaper night November o'clock officers Orange paper party patriotic political pontoons Potomac Rappahannock rebel regiment reported river September September 26 shell soldiers soon South streets tents Terhune Trenton troops Twenty-sixth New Jersey Twenty-sixth Regiment Union army Vermont victory Virginia volunteers Washington wounded wrote York