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 an Illinois Republican , " I love her reputation , and when I am so often compelled to hear the anathemas hurled against her . . . I get to be fighting mad at those who have brought this shame upon us . " 20 New Jersey , concludes ...
... wrote an Illinois Republican , " I love her reputation , and when I am so often compelled to hear the anathemas hurled against her . . . I get to be fighting mad at those who have brought this shame upon us . " 20 New Jersey , concludes ...
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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 ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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