News in the 19th Century

NWS010   Writing And Fighting The Civil War.  Soldier Correspondence To The New York Sunday Mercury.  
Ed. by William B. Styple
Soldier writing to the paper wrote of contemporary events, scenes, and personalities.  They did not write from hindsight, nor are they as prone to exaggerate their personal roles. Hardcover. 320 pp. 
Bookguy price $27

NWS009 A Bohemian Brigade. Civil War Correspondents. Mostly Rough, Sometimes Ready
James Perry
The tales Perry tells are entertaining, sometimes hard to believe, but always historically accurate.  Competition led reporters to file stories prematurely as they raced to be the first to get their accounts on "the lightning" - thier name for the telegraph.  Army commanders on both sides distrusted a free press they could not control. Hardcover.  303 pp.  out of print one copy left
Bookguy price  $31.95

NWS006 Blue and Gray in Black and White.  The Newspapers of the Civil War.
B. Harris
Stories of the editors and correspondents in the field.  Paper.
Bookguy price  $19.95

NWS007 Sherman's Other War: The General and the Press
J. F. Marszaleck
Sherman despised newsmen and considered them spies.
Bookguy price  $17.95