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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... command of the Army of the Potomac . Of the 180,000 men officially on the rolls , nearly 85,000 were absent without leave . Scurvy and diarrhea plagued the troops ; and the camps near Aquia Creek were little more than pigsties , with ...
... command of the Army of the Potomac . Of the 180,000 men officially on the rolls , nearly 85,000 were absent without leave . Scurvy and diarrhea plagued the troops ; and the camps near Aquia Creek were little more than pigsties , with ...
Page 167
... command the men halted and dressed up the line , not as accurately , perhaps , as we would have done on the parade ground , but still , well . 18 The men had not especially taken to the mustachioed lieutenant colonel when he first ...
... command the men halted and dressed up the line , not as accurately , perhaps , as we would have done on the parade ground , but still , well . 18 The men had not especially taken to the mustachioed lieutenant colonel when he first ...
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... command of a division of the Army of the Potomac and later commander of the Second Division , Fourth Corps , and Second Division , Sixth Corps . As a mem- ber of " Baldy " Smith's staff , Martindale saw action at Yorktown , Lee's Hill ...
... command of a division of the Army of the Potomac and later commander of the Second Division , Fourth Corps , and Second Division , Sixth Corps . As a mem- ber of " Baldy " Smith's staff , Martindale saw action at Yorktown , Lee's Hill ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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