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A Civil War Newspaper Complains About Swearing
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A Civil War Newspaper Complains About Swearing
In the spring of 1863, as the Civil War raged across the country, editors at a newspaper in Pennsylvania’s Coal Region found something else to worry about: the foul language of local workingmen. In a short column published in the Pittston Gazette of Pittston, PA, the paper turned its attention away from the battlefield and toward everyday life in Luzerne County, taking aim at what it saw as a widespread habit of profanity among mechanics and lab…
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