Knights of the Quill: Confederate Correspondents and their Civil War Reporting

West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2010. Hardcover. New. Yellow printed boards with sepia-tone illustration, no DJ. XIV, 729 pp. Many b/w illustrations. Knights of the Quill offers a unique assessment of war correspondence in Southern newspapers during the American Civil War. The men and women who covered the battles and political developments for Southern newspapers were of a different breed than those who reported the war for the North. They were doctors, lawyers, teachers, editors, and businessmen, nearly all of them with college and professional degrees. With its emphasis on primary sources, the book offers an important and enduring historical perspective on the Civil War and also meets the highest standards of historical scholarship. - back cover. (Inventory #: 130457)