Fighting words: an illustrated history of newspaper accounts of the Civil War

Excerpts from a wide range of period newspapers offer a detailed account of the Civil War and reveal how the media skewed how Northerners and Southerners viewed the war.

  • OCLC #: 55078516
  • ISBN #:
    • 1565847962
    • 9781565847965
    • 9781595581419
    • 1595581413
  • Call #: E609.C66 2004
  • Physical Location: Pritzker Military Museum & Library — Main Shelves — E609 .C66 2004
  • Personal Collection:
    • The Norman Kuperman Military History Collection.
  • Publisher: New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., 2004.
  • Physical Description: xxii, 325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
  • Contents:
    • Introduction: This Is a War of Opinion --
    • Why They Fought --
    • First Shots --
    • Freedoms Worth Fighting For --
    • Slavery Alone Is the Cause of All the Trouble --
    • Confronting the Enemy --
    • War and Rumors of War: Manassas, 1861 --
    • Occupied and Dishonored: New Orleans, 1862 --
    • The Emancipation Proclamation --
    • Emancipation in Northern Eyes --
    • Emancipation in Southern Eyes --
    • Blacks in Union Blue --
    • Points of Crisis --
    • If We Are Subjugated We Will Do It Ourselves --
    • We Are Now in the Great Crisis of the War --
    • A Perfect Reign of Terror --
    • The Confederacy Undone --
    • Smashing Things to the Sea, and Onward --
    • We Must Employ Slavery If We Expect to Perpetuate Slavery --
    • Endings and Beginnings --
    • In the Loss of Lee, They Lose Everything --
    • The Greatest Crime of Modern Times --
    • From War to Peace.
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