Blue & Gray in Black & White is account of the techniques, tactics, and personalities of the news-gathering industry during the American Civil War. This cataclysmic event accelerated the transformation of the content of newspapers from pallid literature and opinion to robust, partisan reporting of vital events, real and imagined. The written record, however, is only part of the story. Much of the impact of Civil War journalism derives from its illustrations, and twenty-two examples of these are reproduced here. Harris also follows the war's most famous artists, including Winslow Homer, as they and their reporter brethren braved the dangers of the battlefield to capture some of our most memorable images of war.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-353) and index.

1. Introduction: The War Correspondent -- 2. State of the Art -- 3. Rehearsals -- 4. Sumter -- 5. Age of Innocence -- 6. Battle Too Soon -- 7. Bull Run Russell -- 8. Sedition and Suppression: North -- 9. Sedition and Suppression: South -- 10. Modus Scribendi -- 11. Washington -- 12. Command and Control -- 13. Summer of '62 -- 14. Matter of Color -- 15. Press Reports a Battle: Fredericksburg, I -- 16. Press Reports a Battle: Fredericksburg, II -- 17. Other War -- 18. Transitions, 1863 -- 19. Poet as Historian, I -- 20. Watershed -- 21. Poet as Historian, II -- 22. Endgame -- 23. Coda.