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How Civil War Media Shaped Opinion and Morale a PROJECT SUBMITTED to the FACULTY of the GRADUATE SCHOOL OF Media as Weaponry: How Civil War Media Shaped Opinion and Morale A PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BY Matthew Spears IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF LIBERAL STUDIES May 2016 i Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 1 Chapter One – Media at Antietam ................................................................................................................ 5 Chapter Two – Media at Fredericksburg .................................................................................................... 24 Chapter Three – Media at Gettysburg ........................................................................................................ 44 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................... 70 Works Cited ................................................................................................................................................. 72 ii Illustrations Figure 1 – Antietam Illustration (Forbes) .................................................................................................... 10 Figure 2 – Killings Cave (Schell) ................................................................................................................... 11 Figure 3 – John Morgan’s Raid (Risley) ....................................................................................................... 12 Figure 4 – Bloody Lane (“Brady’s Photographs”) ........................................................................................ 13 Figure 5 – Antietam Map (The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective) ......................................................... 14 Figure 6 – Fighting Across the Rappahannock River (Leslie and Moat) ...................................................... 32 Figure 7 – Fredericksburg Illustration (“The Battle of Fredericksburg”) ..................................................... 33 Figure 8 – Fredericksburg Map (The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective) ................................................ 34 Figure 9 – View of Fredericksburg (“View of Fredericksburg, VA”) ............................................................ 35 Figure 10 – A Sharpshooter’s Last Sleep, Gettysburg (Rosenheim) ............................................................ 55 Figure 11 – Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg (Rosenheim) ....................................................... 55 Figure 12 – A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg (Rosenheim) .......................................................................... 57 Figure 13 – Field Where General Reynolds Fell, Gettysburg (Rosenheim) .................................................. 57 Figure 14 – The Battle of Gettysburg (“Gettysburg Battle”) ....................................................................... 59 Figure 15 – Gettysburg Map (The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective) .................................................... 60 1 Introduction Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? These are the most rudimentary basics for any twenty-first century journalist. This is also a good way to explore history, and it is the lens I use to view and understand the role media played during the Civil War. As a trained journalist with an interest in the Civil War, I have often wondered how the media affected the fighting that took place from April 1861 to April 1865. By examining the various forms of available media during this period, I intend to illustrate that media had a significant impact on shaping the nation’s opinion and morale during the war. In order to better understand the context in which these mediums functioned, it is important to first provide a brief background on the causes of the war itself. While there were numerous factors and events that contributed to the start of the Civil War, the three largest causes, I would argue, were economic and social differences between the North and South, states’ rights versus federal rights, and the increasingly problematic issue of slavery. During the first half of the nineteenth century, Northerners had become much more urbanized as cities became bigger and industrialization became more prominent. The South, however, maintained its agrarian lifestyle and had prospered, thanks in large part to Eli Whitney’s cotton gin, created in 1793. Another major disagreement between the North and South came from the fight for state rights versus federal rights, an intense verbal and ideological battle that had been brewing since the creation of the American colonies. By the mid-nineteenth century, state versus federal rights had become a hotbed for disagreement. The South favored the right for states to make their own decisions with a loosely-based central government, while the North advocated for a strong, centralized government that would have more power than the individual states. The third important cause of the Civil War was the issue of slavery. Many 2 Southerners not only relied on the institution of slavery as a means for economic and social prosperity, they also whole-heartedly believed in slavery as the right thing to do. On the other hand, many Northern citizens rejected the idea of slavery and thought it was an antiquated system that needed to be abolished. Northerners largely thought the institution of slavery was cruel and an infringement on human rights, even if many of them were still racist and disliked black people. For the purposes of this research, however, my focus will remain on the role of media during the war. There have been many studies on media during the Civil War. These studies have been wide and varied, including how the war shaped the growth and development of nineteenth- century media. This is particularly true of the last few years as the importance of mid-nineteenth century media is becoming better understood and more valued. Authors such as Risley Ford, Civil War Journalism (2012), and David Sachsman, A Press Divided: Newspaper Coverage of the Civil War (2014), have effectively managed to shine a light on Northern and Southern media coverage, usage, and evolution. Traditional scholarship tends to view media as an object of the Civil War. As an object, it was acted upon and affected by the war. In this theoretical train of thought, the media can only be a recipient of change. What I aim to do is build on these traditional works, and others like them, in order to take it one step further. While there are numerous studies on the impact the Civil War had on a burgeoning media, my research examines the flip-side of that. Instead, I want to investigate how media affected the Civil War’s outcome. Deconstructing nineteenth-century media in this way will help convey its role as a change agent, and not merely a change recipient. By examining three battles in particular—Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg—and analyzing how they were covered throughout America by the Northern, Southern, and Western media, I hope to shed light on the 3 importance of media usage during the Civil War. I will argue that thanks to the clever and sometimes manipulative use of media, both the North and South used media to spin information. However, the North would prove to be more effective, and ultimately more likely to win the war, thanks in part to their more adept ability to spin information, their greater number of resources, and the government’s willingness to control and censor communications. In other words, the sheer volume of Northern media gave it an inherently distinct advantage relative to the South. In order to prove this point, I will employ a mixed-methods approach that errs on the side of qualitative. For my qualitative methodology, I will emphasize case studies using examples of newspapers, photography/illustrations, and telegraphy throughout the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg. For the quantitative approach, I will support my research with statistics to provide a clearer picture as it relates to soldiers, casualties, and media coverage. My project will rely on the disciplines of history and media. The backdrop for my thesis is that of the Civil War and will cover the fighting, politics, and social and cultural issues of the time. The media component of my project will offer keen insights on how newspapers, photography, illustrations, and the telegraph grew and developed during this time period. Together, these subjects intersect at an interesting crossroad, pitting familiarity against unfamiliarity. On the one hand is the future of America hanging in the balance as it sways back and forth between Northern and Southern control through combat. On the other hand are the distinct media utilized during that period—one tool that in previous wars saw usage in some forms (newspapers), while seeing absolutely no usage in others (photography and the telegraph). Combined, this gave both parties, North and South, access to a new form of “weaponry” that could be used to aid their respective sides in battle. 4 As each battle I have researched will be tackled in chronological order, I will begin with Antietam before proceeding to Fredericksburg and Gettysburg. In addition to examining the media usage and technology involved in each battle, I will interweave a soldier’s story into each chapter. The stories focus on a particular soldier who participated in one
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