South Reports the Civil War

J. Cutlery Andrews

Published by Princeton University Press 1970

South Reports the Civil War

J. Cutlery Andrews

Volume 1278 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400872541

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For the newspaper profession the problems confronted in reporting the Civil War were as catalytic as the war itself was for American society. Many of the problems encountered in reporting later wars were present in the Civil War, but they were new problems then: communications, transportation, Federal confiscation of printing presses, censorship, military personalities, and, after mid-1863, how to tell a proud people that it was losing the war.

Professor Andrews, author of The North Reports the Civil War (1955), now turns his attention to the South. He shows that Southern war reporting at its best was comparable in quality to that of the leading Northern war correspondents, that the reporting of news by the Southern press was an essential ingredient not simply of journalism but also of the Confederate propaganda effort, and that the South's newsmen contributed to the revolution of a profession, an industry, and a form of human communication.

Originally published in 1970.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Map Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiv
1. Civil War in the Making Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. A Bird's Eye View of Wartime Jovirnalism in the South Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
3. "A Great Battle Has Been Fought . . . and Won" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
4. Great Expectations and Minor Accomplishments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
5. Alexander Exposes a "Lost Opportunity" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
6. Editor Daniel Sows Dissension among Lee's Lieutenants Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
7. "There Is a Smell of Death in the Air" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
8. Editor Forsyth Reports from Kentucky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
9. Misleading Dispatches and Misspent Opportunities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
10. "Is Gettysburg Another Antietam?" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
11. Bragg's Final Reckoning with the Press Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
12. "The War Absorbs All Other Topics" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
13. "Rover" Reports the Fall of Atlanta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429
14. Fewer Journals, Fainter Voices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	478
15. Final Edition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	506
Appendix I. Who Was "Shadow?" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	543
Appendix II. Southern Reporters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	548
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	553
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	587