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
... effects summed up . - Coarseness of Northern civilization . - No landed gentry in the North . - Scanty appearance of the ... Effect of the Louisiana purchase on the tides of emigration . - Unequal Federal legislation , as a cause of the ...
... effects summed up . - Coarseness of Northern civilization . - No landed gentry in the North . - Scanty appearance of the ... Effect of the Louisiana purchase on the tides of emigration . - Unequal Federal legislation , as a cause of the ...
Page xii
... effect . - Other military acts of the Confederate Congress . - Re - organization of the army . - Destruction of Southern cotton and tobacco . - Authorization of partisan service . - Alternations of Confede- rate victory and defeat ...
... effect . - Other military acts of the Confederate Congress . - Re - organization of the army . - Destruction of Southern cotton and tobacco . - Authorization of partisan service . - Alternations of Confede- rate victory and defeat ...
Page xv
... Effect of McClellan's defeat in the North . - Organization of another Federal army under Gen. Pope . - Political significance of Pope's appointment . - New measures of violence in the war . - McClellan's ideas of the conduct of the war ...
... Effect of McClellan's defeat in the North . - Organization of another Federal army under Gen. Pope . - Political significance of Pope's appointment . - New measures of violence in the war . - McClellan's ideas of the conduct of the war ...
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... Effect of the Emancipation Proclamation on the Confeder- ates . - President Davis ' commentary . - Spirit of the press and , people of the Con- federacy . - Effect of the proclamation in the North . - Analysis of the Northern elections ...
... Effect of the Emancipation Proclamation on the Confeder- ates . - President Davis ' commentary . - Spirit of the press and , people of the Con- federacy . - Effect of the proclamation in the North . - Analysis of the Northern elections ...
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... Effect of the Federal successes of 1863 on the Northern elections . - Estimate in the Richmond newspapers of the Democratic alliance in the North . - Losses of the Democratic party in the elections of 1863. - President Lincoln's triumph ...
... Effect of the Federal successes of 1863 on the Northern elections . - Estimate in the Richmond newspapers of the Democratic alliance in the North . - Losses of the Democratic party in the elections of 1863. - President Lincoln's triumph ...
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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