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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... facts of the War of the Confederates in America have been at the mercy of many temporary agents ; they have been either confounded with sensational rumours , or discoloured by violent prejudices : in this condition they are not only not ...
... facts of the War of the Confederates in America have been at the mercy of many temporary agents ; they have been either confounded with sensational rumours , or discoloured by violent prejudices : in this condition they are not only not ...
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... fact , form a power , whose decrees are the Constitution itself , and whose voice can silence all discontent . The utmost extent then of the power is , that a State acting in its sovereign capacity , as one of the parties to the ...
... fact , form a power , whose decrees are the Constitution itself , and whose voice can silence all discontent . The utmost extent then of the power is , that a State acting in its sovereign capacity , as one of the parties to the ...
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... fact that we have to consider , not the action of rival parties or opposing interests within the limits of one body ... facts , and will in vain attempt an analysis of controversies , apparently the most various and confused . The ...
... fact that we have to consider , not the action of rival parties or opposing interests within the limits of one body ... facts , and will in vain attempt an analysis of controversies , apparently the most various and confused . The ...
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... fact and to illustrate especially the decline of that State , we may take two pictures of Virginia , placing an ... facts , instead of betaking ourselves to remote and refined speculations after the usual fashion of the curious , with ...
... fact and to illustrate especially the decline of that State , we may take two pictures of Virginia , placing an ... facts , instead of betaking ourselves to remote and refined speculations after the usual fashion of the curious , with ...
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... fact , collecting about twice as much revenue as its usual expenditures required , the North still held to its demands for pro- tection , and strenuously resisted any repeal or reduction of the existing tariff . The demand of the South ...
... fact , collecting about twice as much revenue as its usual expenditures required , the North still held to its demands for pro- tection , and strenuously resisted any repeal or reduction of the existing tariff . The demand of the South ...
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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