Berry Craig's Kentucky's Rebel Press: Pro-Confederate Media and the PDF

By Berry Craig

Throughout the Civil warfare, the effect of the preferred press and its skillful use of propaganda was once tremendous major in Kentucky. Union and accomplice sympathizers have been scattered through the border slave nation, and in 1860, at the least twenty-eight of the commonwealth's nearly sixty newspapers have been pro-Confederate, making the secessionist reason look more desirable in Kentucky than it used to be in fact. additionally, the influence of those "rebel presses" reached past the sector to readers in the course of the nation.

In this compelling and well timed learn, Berry Craig analyzes the media's position in either reflecting and shaping public opinion in the course of a severe time in US heritage. Craig starts through investigating the 1860 secession concern, which happened at a time while so much Kentuckians thought of themselves ardent Unionists in aid of the state's political hero, Henry Clay. yet as secessionist arguments have been amplified during the kingdom, so have been the voices of pro-Confederate newshounds within the kingdom. via January 1861, the Hickman Courier, Columbus Crescent, and Henderson Reporter steadfastly referred to as for Kentucky to secede from the Union.

Kentucky's insurgent Press within the Secession obstacle of 1860--1861 additionally showcases reporters who supported the accomplice reason, together with editor Walter N. Haldeman, who fled the country after Kentucky's so much famous accomplice paper, the Louisville day-by-day Courier, used to be close down by means of Union forces. Exploring an fascinating and ignored a part of Civil warfare historical past, this ebook unearths the significance of the partisan press to the Southern reason in Kentucky.

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