Item Detail
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31312
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English
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Utah and the Civil War Press
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Civil War Saints
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Provo, UT
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Religious Studies Center
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267–83
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"Shortly after the Civil War ended, the New York Times suggested that “in the Spring of 1861 South Carolina was more loyal to the Union than Utah is today”—a truly staggering statement considering that South Carolina had seceded from the Union in December 1860, and the following spring South Carolinian artillery units fired the first shots of the Civil War, a war that led to the death of over six hundred thousand people. What was it about Utah Territory that caused newspapers to express such strong views? To understand what interested American newspapers about Utah and Mormons during the Civil War, we must look at the decade before the war." [Author]