Yankee Reporters and Southern Secrets
Subtitle: Journalism, Open Source Intelligence, and the Coming of the Civil War
Publisher: Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781433151323
Subjects: Military intelligence; Journalism, united states; Press and politics; American newspapers; United states, history, 1815-1861
Description: "This book reveals the evidence of secessionist conspiracy that appeared in American newspapers from the end of the 1860 presidential campaign to just before the first major battle of the American Civil War. It tells the story of the Yankee reporters who risked their lives by going undercover in hostile places that became the Confederate States of America. By observing the secession movement and sending reports for publication in Northern newspapers, they armed the Union with intelligence about the enemy that civil and military leaders used to inform their decisions in order to contain damage and answer the movement to break the Union apart and establish a separate slavery-based nation in the South"--