The North reports the Civil War.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 1955
Place of publication: [Pittsburgh]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 813
Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Journalists
Description: Full-scale study of the first adequate war reporting in history.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 761-780.
Table of contents: title: The reporter and the fort; title: The press girds for the conflict; title: "Gentlemen of the ravenous pen"; title: The men in the field; title: The first fruits of the censorship; title: The curtain slowly rises; title: The first tidings from the fleet; title: An affray with General Halleck; title: The press goes to the peninsula; title: "Come, Sir, this is no time for prayer"; title: Battle reporting at its best; title: On the march with Buell and Rosecrans; title: "Dont treat...Fredericksburg as a disaster"; title: By-lines by general order; title: Some "casualties" among the Bohemians; title: Gettysburg as the newsmen saw it; title: "Shambling shanks and the fugacious furay"; title: Grim days at Chattanooga; title: Strange tales from the Red River country; title: Into the wilderness again; title: "Atlanta is ours, and fairly won"; title: "If all...battles...were as well described"; title: The grand finale; title: "Thirty".