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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... arms had just been amputated , to be ... tumbled into ambulances and jostled two or three miles over rough roads ... arm had been shattered by a miniƩ ball and he had wounds in both hips , wrote Morrill . He came reluctantly from the ...
... arms had just been amputated , to be ... tumbled into ambulances and jostled two or three miles over rough roads ... arm had been shattered by a miniƩ ball and he had wounds in both hips , wrote Morrill . He came reluctantly from the ...
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... arms by the Corps Ordinance officer and they were again condemned . Whether we shall have others or not is yet undecided . The opinion is general among officers and men that it is hardly the fair thing to put them in the thickest of a ...
... arms by the Corps Ordinance officer and they were again condemned . Whether we shall have others or not is yet undecided . The opinion is general among officers and men that it is hardly the fair thing to put them in the thickest of a ...
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... arms , Chancellorsville was essentially a standoff . The Northern army had been beaten but not destroyed . The South ... arm , would never humble the Union again . Early reports of the engagement reaching the North were confusing at best ...
... arms , Chancellorsville was essentially a standoff . The Northern army had been beaten but not destroyed . The South ... arm , would never humble the Union again . Early reports of the engagement reaching the North were confusing at best ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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