Chapter 5’s newspaper analysis shows how partisan editors and correspondents reinforced and polarized partisan voters in how they framed the war’s progress, its racial implications, and electoral implications of the dead. For example, Democratic and Republican papers were equally likely to mention Union casualties, but anti-war Democratic papers framed deaths as senseless losses in a hopeless, misguided cause, while Republican papers framed them as heroic martyrs whose deaths required a redoubled devotion to victory. Democrats explicitly tied the dead to vote choice far more than Republicans did.