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Military Periodicals and the Civil War. Michael E. Unsworth History Librarian Michigan State University Libraries [email protected]. OUTLINE. Importance Definition Antebellum Efforts Need during the War Journals: Army & Navy Official Gazette United States Service Magazine - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Military Periodicals and the Civil War
Michael E. UnsworthHistory LibrarianMichigan State
University [email protected]
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OUTLINE• Importance• Definition• Antebellum Efforts• Need during the War• Journals:
o Army & Navy Official Gazette
o United States Service Magazine
o Army and Navy Journal• Postwar developments• Summary
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Definition of Journals:Elastic
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IMPORTANCE:Military Professionalism
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IMPORTANCE:American View of Military Leadership
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Military Professionalism:Specialized Education
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Military Professionalism:Specialized Knowledge
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Antebellum Efforts,1796-1853
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Civil War Rapid Expansion of the Union Forces = Need for Information
Year Army Navy & Marines
1860 16,215 11,743
1861 186,845 30,267
1862 637,264 35,860
1863 918,354 41,707
1864 970,905 60,819
1865 1,000,692 62,156
1866 57,072 19,677
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Army & Navy Official Gazette(July 7, 1863-June 27, 1865)
Founded by Edwin M. Stanton
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Type of Publication:Official Gazette
• Acts as an Official publication of a Government:
“bringing together data from numerous official sources and enabling users to cross-reference official information easily”• Lists:
Appointments and Promotions
Public Honors Legal Notices State Notice
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Army & Navy Official GazetteContents
• Reports of Battles• “Important” Orders of the War Dept.• Records of Courts-Martial• Directories of Army officials & military
hospitals• General & Special Orders from government
departments• Additions & corrections to drill manuals• Correspondence• Announcements• Articles from Other Publications
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Army & Navy Official Gazette“Dismissals in the Department of the
Cumberland, Oct. 23, 1863”“Second Lieutenant Oscar D. Kress, 17th Kentucky volunteers, from April 1, 1863, for frequent rowdyism and drunkenness in public places, persistent neglect of duty, and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman and also for general worthlessness.”
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United States Service Magazine(Jan. 1864-June 1866)
Founded by: Prof. Henry Coppée
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PROFESSIONAL JOURNAL TAILORED TO AN AUDIENCE OF
CITIZEN-OFFICERS
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CURRENT OPERATIONS
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BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE
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FOREIGN DEVELOPMENTS
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OPINION
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EDITORIALS
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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HUMAN INTEREST
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POETRY
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LITERARY TOPICS
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FEW ILLUSTRATIONS
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1863-
Founded by William Conant
Church
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WEEKLY NEWSPAPER & TRADE JOURNAL
Devoted “with singleness of purposed to the impartial discussion of military questions and to the dissemination of correct information.”ANJ, Vol. 1, no. 1
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“Careful and Trustworthy Narrative” of Current Operations
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Official Reports Of Military And Civilian Agencies
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New Military Inventions, Especially Iron Clad Ships
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“Correspondence from the ablest officers…on professional questions…suggestions of
changes and improvements; discussions of military subjects”
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EDITORIAL CRITICISMS AND DISCUSSIONS
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Personnel Information
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CONTRIBUTORS & CORRESPONDENTS
• “Old Fogy”= Isaac Newton, 1st assistant Engineer, U.S.S. Montor• “Corporal”= L.L. Crouse, Military correspondent, New York Times• West Point Professor Dennis Hart Mahan on operations and developments• Commander T.A.M. Craven, U.S.N., on the Gulf Coast Blockade• General George B. McClellan on the “Military Topography of the United States”• Brig. Gen. W. B. Hazen on the Battle of Chickamauga• Admiral John Dahlgren• Admiral Louis Goldsborough• Admiral David Dixon Porter• General William T. Sherman
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STRUCK A CHORD• Major General George Mead: “sincere pleasure to
add my [financial] contribution..”• Admiral John Dahlgren: pleased with the early
issues• Major General William Rosecrans: “The success of
the paper…is highly desirable.’• Major General W.H. French: “The Army requires just
such a paper..”• Charles Francis Adams, Jr.: “…the only American
newspaper which treats calmly and intelligibility of military operations.”
• Henry Raymond, New York Times editor: every army and navy officer and many enlisted men should subscribe
• Historian Edward Everett Hale: “triumphant national success.”
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“I send you a copy of the Army and Navy Journal General Meade gave me, and call your attention to a rebel article on cavalry. Read the part I have marked; it is but a line. We need cavalry for such purposes.”Maj. Gen. G.K. Warren to Maj. Gen. A. A. Humphries (Dec. 1, 1863) Source: War of the Rebellion: Series 1, vol 29, Part 2 p. 525
STRUCK A CHORD
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Quoted by:• Albion• Arkansas State gazette• Bangor [Me.] Whig & Courier • Boston [Me.] Advertiser• Boston Herald • Central City [Colo.] Miners’ Register • Chattanooga Gazette• Chicago Tribune• Christian Examiner• Cleveland Herald• Columbus Gazette • Detroit Free Press• Dover [N.H.] Gazette• Edinburgh Revie• Fayetteville [N.C.] Observer• Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper• Harper’s Weekly• Idaho Territory Superintendent of Public
Instruction• Jackson Mississippian • Knickerbocker Monthly• Liberator • Littell's Living Age • London Times
• Louisville Journal • Lowell (Ma.) Citizen and News • Maine Farmer • Medical and Surgical Reporter• Memphis Appeal• Milwaukee Sentinel• National Intelligencer• Natchez Courier• New Haven Palladium• New Hampshire Statesman• New Orleans Picayune • New York Evangelist • New York Herald• New York Observer and Chronicle • New York Times • North American and United States Gazette • Richmond Whig • San Francisco Evening Bulletin • Scientific American • United States Service Magazine• Vermont Chronicle • Vermont Watchman and State Journal • Zion's Herald and Wesleyan Journal
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Postwar: Retained Its Influence“It was not a professional journal...but along with its social and other items about service personnel it carried articles, correspondence, and news of interest to military people that helped bind its readers together in a common professional fraternity.“
Stewart, Richard W. American military history. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 2005 : Vol. 1, p. 312.
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Morphed From a Weekly Newspaper to a Monthly Journal
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POSTWAR: CHURCH’S ACTIVITIES
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POSTWAR: Professional Military Journals
• 1874- Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute
• 1879-1917 Journal of the Military Service Institution of the U.S.
• 1888- Cavalry Journal (Now Armor)• 1892-1954 Journal of the U.S. Artillery (Later
Coast Artillery Journal)• 1904-1950 Infantry Journal• 1909- Professional Memoirs, Corps of
Engineers (Now Military Engineer)• 1911- Field Artillery Journal • 1916- Marine Corps Gazette
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END
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• February 6, 1864. Brigadier-General, P. ST. GEO. COOKE, to ADJUTANT-GENERAL U. S. ARMY, Washington.
• “I have found in the Army and Navy Journal of January 23 what purports to be part of Major-General McClelland's official report, and of which the following is an extract, relating to the battle of Gaines' Mill: “
• OFFICIAL RECORDS: Series 1, vol 11, Part 2 (Peninsular Campaign) p. 43
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“If not inconsistent with the customs of service and the views of the War Department, I have the honor to request that the reports of division and brigade commanders may be published in the Army and Navy Journal or Official Gazette.”Brevet Major-General J. H. Wilson to Brigadier General William D. Whipple (June 29, 1865)
OFFICIAL RECORDS: Series 1, vol 49, Part 1 (Mobile Bay Campaign) WILSON'S RAID - ALABAMA AND GEORGIA.
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