Knights of the quill
Subtitle: confederate correspondents and their Civil War reporting
By: Patricia G. McNeely, Debra Reddin van Tuyll, Henry H. Schulte.
Contributors: Van Tuyll, Debra Reddin.; Schulte, Henry H.
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: West Lafayette, Ind
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781557535665
Subjects: War correspondents -- United States -- Biography; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Press coverage; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Journalists
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Knights of the quill: the press in the crucible of war; title: South Carolina. William Ashmead Courtenay: a knight on the field of honor; title: Felix Gregory de Fontaine: chronicling the horrors of war; title: Robert W. Gibbes: the 'mind' of the Confederacy; title: Joan: a citizen journalist of the Confederacy; title: Bartholomew Riordan: spying on Washington, D.C.; title: Leonidas W. Spratt: preserving the legend of "Stonewall" Jackson; title: Henry Timrod: reluctant correspondent who became poet laureate; title: Florida. L.H. Mathews: General Bragg's nemesis; title: Alabama. John Forsyth: love and hate in the strife-torn south; title: Henry Hotze: propaganda voice of the Confederacy; title: John H. Linebaugh: on the move for the Memphis daily appeal; title: Samuel Chester Reid, Jr.: renaissance adventurer; title: William Wallace Screws: "most useful citizen of his day"; title: William G. Shepardson: swashbuckling newshawk on the Chesapeake; title: Georgia. Peter W. Alexander: friend of the foot soldier; title: James Roddy Sneed: "no greater tyranny than a muzzled press"; title: John S. Thrasher: revolutionary and reformer; title: Louisiana. Durant Da Ponte: through a young diarist's eyes; title: Henry H. Perry: confederate apologist and reporter texas; title: Charles Demorse: reporting from the Indian territories; title: William Doran: a Texas hero takes up his pen; title: James P. Douglas: fighting for the South with pen and sword; title: R. R. Gilbert: a Texas humorist goes to war; title: Virginia. George William Bagby, Jr.: confederate "croaker"; title: James B. Sener: hometown reporter; title: John R. Thompson: a poet makes an impact as "Dixie"; title: Virginia: "from a lady correspondent"; title: Tennessee. Henry Watterson: rebel with many causes.