DOI: / Journalism in the Fallen Confederacy

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3 Journalism in the Fallen Confederacy Debra Reddin van Tuyll Georgia Regents University, USA Nancy McKenzie Dupont University of Mississippi, USA Joseph R. Hayden University of Memphis, USA DOI: /

4 JOURNALISM IN THE FALLEN CONFEDERACY Copyright Debra Reddin van Tuyll, Nancy McKenzie Dupont, and Joseph R. Hayden, Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition All rights reserved. First published in 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN in the United States a division of St. Martin s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number , of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave and Macmillan are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: PDF ISBN: Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. First edition: DOI: /

5 DOI: / We dedicate this book to the pioneering men and women who gathered in Chattanooga in November 1993 to open up a neglected area of journalism history: the history of the Civil War press. That meeting morphed into the annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, Civil War and Free Expression. Civil War-era journalism history would be poorer today were it not for the efforts of these scholars. They have been our friends, mentors, and critics (in the best sense of the word). So it is with great gratitude that we dedicate this book to David Sachsmann, David Mindich, the late Dwight Teeter, Ed Caudill, Lloyd Chaisson, Don Reynolds, Kit Rushing, Edd Applegate, the late Gene Wiggins, Bob Dardenne, Jim Ogden, Barbara Straus Reed, and Leonard Ray Teel.

6 Contents Acknowledgments About the Authors vii viii Introduction: Occupied! 1 1 Sic Semper Tyrannis : The Alexandria Gazette under Union Occupation 18 2 Ruling the Roost : The Occupied Press in Civil War Chattanooga 42 3 This Causeless War: The Transformation of New Orleans Newspapers during Union Occupation 67 4 Siege, Surrender and a New Age of Journalism in Occupied Vicksburg 91 5 Conclusion 111 Index 122 vi DOI: /

7 Acknowledgments Thanks to Dean Charles Skip Clark and to Pamela Hayward, former chair of the Department of Communications at Georgia Regents University for financial support of this project, and to Rick Kenney, current chair of my department, for his moral support of this and all my myriad projects. These three administrators are the best any scholar could hope to work for. Debbie van Tuyll Thanks to the Meek School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi which has given me encouragement and support in all of my research. The staff of the Old Courthouse Museum in Vicksburg went out of their way to help me. Finally, the Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War and Free Expression has my thanks for giving me a start in my research and for encouraging me along the way. Nancy DuPont I would like to acknowledge my one-of-a-kind colleagues at the University of Memphis Department of Journalism. What a great professional family! I d also like to thank the Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression, which does so much to support journalism history. Joe Hayden DOI: / vii

8 About the Authors Debra Reddin van Tuyll is a professor in the Department of Communications at Georgia Regents University. She is the author and/or editor of five other books, including The Confederate Press in the Crucible of the American Civil War and Knights of the Quill: Confederate Correspondents and Their Civil War Reporting, a 2011 finalist for the Tankard Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. Nancy McKenzie Dupont is a professor in the Meek School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of eight book chapters and numerous papers dealing primarily with the Southern press in the secession era and Civil War as well as the African-American newspapers of New Orleans. Before entering the academy, she spent 17 years as a reporter and producer at television stations in the Southeast and West. Joseph R. Hayden is a professor in the Department of Journalism at the University of Memphis. A former broadcast journalist, he is the author of Negotiating in the Press: American Journalism and Diplomacy, ; two monographs on presidential-press relations; and two books on writing. In 2008 he won the Thomas W. Briggs Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has also taught in Mainz, Germany, and in Cairo, Egypt. viii DOI: /