The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates : Comprising a Full and Authentic Account of the Rise and Progress of the Late Southern Confederacy--the Campaigns, Battles, Incidents, and Adventures of the Most Gigantic Struggle of the World's HistoryThis book recounts the Civil War as a battle between "two nations of opposite civilizations" and that slavery enriched the South. |
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Page vi
... Virginia's pros- perity . Her early land system . The Chesapeake . - Alexandria . - George Wash- ington's great commercial project . - Two pictures of Virginia : 1789 and 1829.- An example of the decline of the South in material ...
... Virginia's pros- perity . Her early land system . The Chesapeake . - Alexandria . - George Wash- ington's great commercial project . - Two pictures of Virginia : 1789 and 1829.- An example of the decline of the South in material ...
Page vii
... Virginia Convention . - How the Secession party gained in it . The record of Virginia on the subject of State Rights . — Presi- dent Buchanan on the Secession question . - His weak character and undecided policy . How over - censured by ...
... Virginia Convention . - How the Secession party gained in it . The record of Virginia on the subject of State Rights . — Presi- dent Buchanan on the Secession question . - His weak character and undecided policy . How over - censured by ...
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... Virginia Commissioners . - Secession of Virginia . Discontent in the Western counties . - Second secessionary movement of the Southern States . - Violent acts of the Washington Administration . - Prepara- tions of the Confederate ...
... Virginia Commissioners . - Secession of Virginia . Discontent in the Western counties . - Second secessionary movement of the Southern States . - Violent acts of the Washington Administration . - Prepara- tions of the Confederate ...
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... Virginia the great theatre of the war . - The Grand Army of the North . - Consultation of President Davis and Beauregard and Lee.- Beauregard's line of defence in Northern Virginia . — Sketch of General Beauregard . -His person and ...
... Virginia the great theatre of the war . - The Grand Army of the North . - Consultation of President Davis and Beauregard and Lee.- Beauregard's line of defence in Northern Virginia . — Sketch of General Beauregard . -His person and ...
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... Virginia campaign . - Resources and wealth of the Western section of Virginia . - Wise's command . — The enemy in the Kanawha Valley . - Wise's retreat to Lewisburg . - The Floyd brigade . - Advance of the joint forces towards the ...
... Virginia campaign . - Resources and wealth of the Western section of Virginia . - Wise's command . — The enemy in the Kanawha Valley . - Wise's retreat to Lewisburg . - The Floyd brigade . - Advance of the joint forces towards the ...
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A. P. Hill advance arms army arrest artillery assault attack bank batteries battle Beauregard Bragg brigade campaign captured Carolina cavalry Charleston column command commenced Confederacy Confederate forces Congress Constitution contest corps crossed D. H. Hill declared defence division early enemy enemy's evacuation Federal field fire flank fleet Fort Sumter Fort Wagner Fredericksburg front garrison Government Grant gunboats guns held Hill hundred infantry Jackson James River Johnston Kentucky Lee's Lincoln Longstreet loss Manassas McClellan ment miles military Mississippi Missouri morning moved movement night North Northern officers operations Orleans party pieces of artillery political position Potomac President Davis prisoners railroad rear regiments reinforcements retreat Richmond river road Shenandoah Valley Sherman side slavery soldiers South South Carolina Southern success Sumter superiour surrender Tennessee thousand tion troops Union United Valley vessels Vicksburg victory Virginia Washington whole wounded