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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... field . - Longstreet's attack . - He saves the day . The enemy utterly routed.— Chickamauga a brilliant but unproductive victory .... 439 CHAPTER XXVIII . Conference of Gens . Bragg and Longstreet the day after the battle of Chickamauga ...
... field . - Longstreet's attack . - He saves the day . The enemy utterly routed.— Chickamauga a brilliant but unproductive victory .... 439 CHAPTER XXVIII . Conference of Gens . Bragg and Longstreet the day after the battle of Chickamauga ...
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... field - sports and dangerous adventure , and the prodigal and improvident aristocracy that dispensed its stores in constant rounds of hospitality and gaiety . Slavery established in the South a peculiar and noble type of civiliza- tion ...
... field - sports and dangerous adventure , and the prodigal and improvident aristocracy that dispensed its stores in constant rounds of hospitality and gaiety . Slavery established in the South a peculiar and noble type of civiliza- tion ...
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... field at Charles- ton , Pensacola , Forts Morgan , Jackson , St. Philip and Pulaski , nineteen thousand men , and sixteen thousand are now en route for Virginia . — It is proposed to organize and hold in readiness for instant action ...
... field at Charles- ton , Pensacola , Forts Morgan , Jackson , St. Philip and Pulaski , nineteen thousand men , and sixteen thousand are now en route for Virginia . — It is proposed to organize and hold in readiness for instant action ...
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... field set out from Washington , thronged with gay women and strumpets going to attend " the Manassas Races ; " and soon in the rear of McDowell's army was collected an in- decent and bedizened rabble to watch the battle from afar . Such ...
... field set out from Washington , thronged with gay women and strumpets going to attend " the Manassas Races ; " and soon in the rear of McDowell's army was collected an in- decent and bedizened rabble to watch the battle from afar . Such ...
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... field - pieces . Gen. Bee , with some Georgia , Alabama , and Mississippi troops , moved up to his support . The joint force was now about five regiments and six field- pieces . That thin line was all that stood between sixteen thousand ...
... field - pieces . Gen. Bee , with some Georgia , Alabama , and Mississippi troops , moved up to his support . The joint force was now about five regiments and six field- pieces . That thin line was all that stood between sixteen thousand ...
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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