Book contents
- With Ballots and Bullets
- With Ballots and Bullets
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 An Introduction to Partisan Warfare
- 2 The Roots of Partisan Civil War
- Part I Mobilizing Partisan Warfare
- Part II Ballots in a Partisan Civil War
- 5 Election News during Wartime
- 6 Weighing the Dead
- 7 Partisan Stability & the Myth of Atlanta
- Part III Legacies of Partisan Violence
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
5 - Election News during Wartime
Loyalty, Racism, Retrospection, & Violence
from Part II - Ballots in a Partisan Civil War
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 October 2020
- With Ballots and Bullets
- With Ballots and Bullets
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 An Introduction to Partisan Warfare
- 2 The Roots of Partisan Civil War
- Part I Mobilizing Partisan Warfare
- Part II Ballots in a Partisan Civil War
- 5 Election News during Wartime
- 6 Weighing the Dead
- 7 Partisan Stability & the Myth of Atlanta
- Part III Legacies of Partisan Violence
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 5’s newspaper analysis shows how partisan editors and correspondents reinforced and polarized partisan voters in how they framed the war’s progress, its racial implications, and electoral implications of the dead. For example, Democratic and Republican papers were equally likely to mention Union casualties, but anti-war Democratic papers framed deaths as senseless losses in a hopeless, misguided cause, while Republican papers framed them as heroic martyrs whose deaths required a redoubled devotion to victory. Democrats explicitly tied the dead to vote choice far more than Republicans did.
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- With Ballots and BulletsPartisanship and Violence in the American Civil War, pp. 107 - 134Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020