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 153
... Cummings would write for the Journal . It was a marriage of convenience : Cummings wanted to write ; the Journal , which prided itself as one of New Jersey's leading newspapers , needed a correspondent . The Mercury's other ...
... Cummings would write for the Journal . It was a marriage of convenience : Cummings wanted to write ; the Journal , which prided itself as one of New Jersey's leading newspapers , needed a correspondent . The Mercury's other ...
Page 211
... Cummings and a hundred others sailed south for glory only to surrender to the United States Navy the following spring . At the outbreak of the Civil War Cummings was setting type for the New York Tribune with Sylvester Bailey . A year ...
... Cummings and a hundred others sailed south for glory only to surrender to the United States Navy the following spring . At the outbreak of the Civil War Cummings was setting type for the New York Tribune with Sylvester Bailey . A year ...
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... Cummings published his only book , Sayings of Uncle Rufus , a small volume of humorous anecdotes . Cummings turned to politics in 1886. Elected as a Democrat to the House of Representatives from the Wall Street district , he still ...
... Cummings published his only book , Sayings of Uncle Rufus , a small volume of humorous anecdotes . Cummings turned to politics in 1886. Elected as a Democrat to the House of Representatives from the Wall Street district , he still ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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