{"id":31,"date":"2010-08-29T18:58:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T18:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/?p=31"},"modified":"2011-02-12T02:04:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T02:04:21","slug":"harrisburg%e2%80%99s-civil-war-patriot-and-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/2010\/08\/29\/harrisburg%e2%80%99s-civil-war-patriot-and-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrisburg\u2019s Civil War Patriot and Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_32\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/24459\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32\" 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\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/files\/2010\/08\/HD_Harrisburg1855detail.preview-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/files\/2010\/08\/HD_Harrisburg1855detail.preview.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harrisburg, PA<\/p><\/div>\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 Civil War. As the editors were \u201cstaunchly Democratic,\u201d Dahlen explains that \u201c[they] printed dispatches calculated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","tag-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}