This research proposed that editors of the south prior to and during the Civil War were more than mere fire eaters, partisans and defenders of state’s rights. In researching a community of small papers in southern Virginia, this paper uncovered a side to southern editors mostly overlooked in traditional journalism history. Editors in Danville, Virginia were concerned about the relocation of Union prisoners to their town, the effect of prisons on their town and its citizens, and the fate of 6,000 Yankees who suffered through horrid conditions, hundreds of whom perished and were buried in what is now a national cemetery. Further, Danville editors were interested in public policy regarding the prisoners and encouraged negotiations between the governments for prisoner exchange.
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