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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... wrote to his wife from camp near Alexandria , Virginia , complaining bitterly of those " at home sympathizing with Rebellion . " What was needed most now , wrote McAllister , a Republican , was “ True Patriotism . ” The man who failed ...
... wrote to his wife from camp near Alexandria , Virginia , complaining bitterly of those " at home sympathizing with Rebellion . " What was needed most now , wrote McAllister , a Republican , was “ True Patriotism . ” The man who failed ...
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... wrote , was a bloody failure that would end with the conquest of the North by the South . " " Abolition fanaticism and its kindred heresies must be crushed out , " wrote Fuller in early 1864 even as thousands of newly freed Blacks ...
... wrote , was a bloody failure that would end with the conquest of the North by the South . " " Abolition fanaticism and its kindred heresies must be crushed out , " wrote Fuller in early 1864 even as thousands of newly freed Blacks ...
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... wrote Sergeant Dodd , " all quickly over . " The cannonade , which ceased only when our charge began , had half buried and almost wholly paralysed the defenders of the little fort , only a few feeble shots met us and we took nearly ...
... wrote Sergeant Dodd , " all quickly over . " The cannonade , which ceased only when our charge began , had half buried and almost wholly paralysed the defenders of the little fort , only a few feeble shots met us and we took nearly ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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