A Press Divided provides new insights regarding the sharp
political divisions that existed among the newspapers of the Civil
War era. These newspapers were divided between North and South, and
also divided within the North and South. These divisions reflected
and exacerbated the conflicts in political thought that caused the
Civil War and the political and ideological battles within the
Union and the Confederacy about how to pursue the war.
In the North, dissenting voices alarmed the Lincoln
administration to such a degree that draconian measures were taken
to suppress dissenting newspapers and editors, while in the South,
the Confederate government held to its fundamental belief in
freedom of speech and was more tolerant of political attacks in the
press. This volume consists of eighteen chapters on subjects
including newspaper coverage of the rise of Lincoln, press reports
on George Armstrong Custer, Confederate women war correspondents,
Civil War photojournalists, newspaper coverage of the Emancipation
Proclamation, and the suppression of the dissident press.
This book tells the story of a divided press before and during
the Civil War, discussing the roles played by newspapers in
splitting the nation, newspaper coverage of the war, and the
responses by the Union and Confederate administrations to press
criticism.
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