Civil War Extra: A Newspaper History of the Civil War from 1863 to 1866

Civil War Extra: A Newspaper History of the Civil War from 1863 to 1866

CIVIL WAR EXTRA A NEWSPAPER HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR FROM 1863 TO 1865 VOLUME II War brings out the worst and the best in news. False information, bias, jingoism, and sensationalism run rampant. Yet, somewhat miraculously, detail, fairness, context and truth shine through. That's what makes newspapers so interesting when they report war. And in the history of western civilization there is one war above all others. It's the war for the future of everything; the war for America, the war for an idea, the war to prove that all men really are created equal - the Civil War. And it was a war, more than any other, that was brought to be through the newspapers. Reporting flowed from all perspectives in America's first independently reported war. The northern account, the southern, the African American, the regimental. Even the wallpaper newspaper (one has to print on something when one is under siege). The diversity of coverage in this war is truly remarkable and it is more true than ever in the incredible collection of voices assembled here. History