The Civil War Soldier and the Press

Introduction: Seeking the Soldier in the Civil War Press Part 1: Introducing the Civil War Soldier 1. Covering "Our Boys": Introducing the Heroic Soldier in the Civil War Press, 1861-1862 2. Picturing Union Soldiers of the Civil War in the Illustrated Press 3. "Army letters of general interest will always find a place in our columns": Soldiers' Letters to Ohio Newspapers during the Civil War 4. Soldiers on the Home Front: The Press Reports the Changing Roles of Women During the Civil War 5. Civil War Conscription in the Pages of Federal and Confederate Newspapers in 1863 Part 2: Reporting the Soldier at War 6. Die Deutsche Sicht: How Germans Viewed Themselves through the Press during the American Civil War 7. The Irish American Union Soldier in the Press and Popular Memory 8. "He Has Earned the Right of Citizenship": Portraits of the African American Soldier in the Civil War Press 9. Duty, Honor, Manhood, and Nationalism: Portrayals of Texas's Civil War Soldiers 10. Mexican American Combatants in the Civil War Press 11. The Popular Press and the Personal Experiences of Civil War Prisoners Part 3: Commemorating and Remembering the Civil War Soldier 12. "Sacrificed Upon the Altar of His Country": Soldiers' Obituaries During the Civil War 13. "The Spectacle is a Sad One": The Disabled Civil War Soldier in the Nineteenth-Century American Press 14. TheCentury Magazine and Memory of the American Civil War 15. Nineteenth-Century Press Coverage of Memorials to the Common Civil War Soldier