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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... Daily Advertiser , a solid conservative journal and the state's largest daily newspaper , normally supported Lincoln but questioned many of his policies . To one side of the Advertiser stood the ultra - Republican Daily Mercury , to the ...
... Daily Advertiser , a solid conservative journal and the state's largest daily newspaper , normally supported Lincoln but questioned many of his policies . To one side of the Advertiser stood the ultra - Republican Daily Mercury , to the ...
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... Daily Advertiser , the state's first daily news- paper , founded on March 1 , 1832. A " champion of the Whig party , " the Daily was a “ bright quarto - sheet , almost wholly given to the discussion of party politics " when it was first ...
... Daily Advertiser , the state's first daily news- paper , founded on March 1 , 1832. A " champion of the Whig party , " the Daily was a “ bright quarto - sheet , almost wholly given to the discussion of party politics " when it was first ...
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... Daily Eagle , 45 , 47 Newark Daily Jacksonian , 45 Newark Daily Journal , 33-35 , 40-41 ; warns against Lincoln's election , 16 ; on Lincoln's election , 17 ; urges union with South , 18 ; on Battle of Bull Run , 25 , 43 ; states its ...
... Daily Eagle , 45 , 47 Newark Daily Jacksonian , 45 Newark Daily Journal , 33-35 , 40-41 ; warns against Lincoln's election , 16 ; on Lincoln's election , 17 ; urges union with South , 18 ; on Battle of Bull Run , 25 , 43 ; states its ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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