{"id":815,"date":"2011-02-24T08:23:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T15:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cumberlandcivilwar.com\/?p=815"},"modified":"2011-02-24T08:23:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T15:23:06","slug":"harrisburgs-civil-war-patriot-and-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/harrisburgs-civil-war-patriot-and-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrisburg\u2019s Civil War Patriot and Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_32\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/24459\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32 \" title=\"Harrisburg, PA\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/files\/2010\/08\/HD_Harrisburg1855detail.preview-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harrisburg, PA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Richard L. Dahlen, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/library\/Dahlen1998.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Harrisburg\u2019s Civil War <em>Patriot and Union<\/em>: Its Conciliatory Viewpoint Collapses<\/a>,\u201d <em>Cumberland County History<\/em> 15 (1998): 115-127. <\/p>\n<p>Richard L. Dahlen\u2019s essay explores the shifts and eventual \u201ccollapse\u201d of the Harrisburg (PA) <em>Patriot and Union<\/em>\u2019s editorial stance during the Civil War. As the editors were \u201cstaunchly Democratic,\u201d Dahlen explains that \u201c[they] printed dispatches calculated to prove that the Republican administration\u2019s military performance was a failure.\u201d In addition, the <em>Patriot and Union<\/em> supported George McClellan in the 1864 election based on the idea that he would quickly end the war if elected. Yet by September 1864 the editors faced a crisis as events seemed to prove that their positions were wrong. The Union army won several key victories and McClellan rejected the idea of a truce. The paper\u2019s \u201ccredibility [was] shattered,\u201d as Dahlen notes. The \u201ccollapse\u201d of a prominent Democratic newspaper had an important impact on the results of 1864 election. As Dahlen argues, \u201cthe  <em>Patriot and Union<\/em> helped drag the famous General George Brinton McClellan down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This essay has been posted online with permission from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historicalsociety.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cumberland County Historical Society<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard L. Dahlen, \u201cHarrisburg\u2019s Civil War Patriot and Union: Its Conciliatory Viewpoint Collapses,\u201d Cumberland County History 15 (1998): 115-127. Richard L. Dahlen\u2019s essay explores the shifts and eventual \u201ccollapse\u201d of the Harrisburg (PA) Patriot and Union\u2019s editorial stance during the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/harrisburgs-civil-war-patriot-and-union\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Harrisburg\u2019s Civil War Patriot and Union<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}