Lincoln's Censor

by Bulla, David W.

• ISBN13: 9781557534736
• ISBN10: 155753473X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-30
• Publisher: Purdue Univ Pr

Summary

"Lincoln's Censor examines the effect of government suppression on the Democratic press in Indiana during the spring of 1863. Indiana's Democratic newspaper editors were subject to Milo S. Hascall's General Order Number Nine, which proclaimed that all newspaper editors and public speakers that encouraged resistance to the draft or any other war measure would be treated as traitors. Brigadier General Hascall, commander of the District of Indiana, was amplifying General Order Number Thirty-eight of Major General Ambrose Everts Burnside, the commander of the Department of the Ohio. Burnside's order declared that criticism of the president and the war effort was tantamount to "declaring sympathies with the enemy." Eleven Democratic newspapers in Indiana faced suspension." "The author found that Democratic newspapers in majority Republican counties were more likely to face suppression, even if constraints on the Democratic press were more necessary in majority Democratic counties. The study concludes that while a temporary chilling effect occurred in Indiana, the free-press tradition survived in the long run."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. ix
List of Illustrations	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Milo Hascall's World: Indiana in the Civil War Era	p. 24
Legal, Theoretic Context of Freedom of the Press in Civil War Indiana	p. 59
Journalism in Civil War Indiana	p. 82
Journalistic Context of Press Suppression	p. 104
Unionism and Emancipation in Civil War Indiana	p. 120
Hascall and His War Against Indiana's Democratic Press	p. 147
The Response to Press Suppression in Civil War Indiana	p. 166
Aftermath of Hascall's Attempt to Constrain the Democratic Press in Civil War Indiana	p. 186
Conclusion	p. 211
Bibliographic Essay	p. 233
Notes	p. 247
References	p. 299
Index	p. 315
About the Author	p. 339
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