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 xxiv
... guns against 22 .-- How the gunboats Selma and Morgan fought the enemy.- Gallant fight of the iron - clad Tennessee . - Surrender of the forts in the harbour . -Little value of Farragut's conquest . - Excessive laudation of him in the ...
... guns against 22 .-- How the gunboats Selma and Morgan fought the enemy.- Gallant fight of the iron - clad Tennessee . - Surrender of the forts in the harbour . -Little value of Farragut's conquest . - Excessive laudation of him in the ...
Page 83
... guns and burning the gun carriages , and occupied Fort Sumter with a view of strengthening his position . This movement was effected as a sur- prise under cover of night . The place in which Major Anderson had now taken refuge was ...
... guns and burning the gun carriages , and occupied Fort Sumter with a view of strengthening his position . This movement was effected as a sur- prise under cover of night . The place in which Major Anderson had now taken refuge was ...
Page 84
... guns on the northern , east- ern , and western sides . These guns commanded the harbour , thus giving the Federal garrison the power to arrest the shipping bound to and from the port , and to assume an attitude of hostility inconsistent ...
... guns on the northern , east- ern , and western sides . These guns commanded the harbour , thus giving the Federal garrison the power to arrest the shipping bound to and from the port , and to assume an attitude of hostility inconsistent ...
Page 109
... guns and six mortars . Farthest off of these , was the Trapier battery , built very strongly with heavy beams and sand - bags , and containing three eight - inch mortars ; next the " iron battery , " covered over with railroad bars ...
... guns and six mortars . Farthest off of these , was the Trapier battery , built very strongly with heavy beams and sand - bags , and containing three eight - inch mortars ; next the " iron battery , " covered over with railroad bars ...
Page 110
... guns ; several of them were disabled ; the parapet walls had crumbled away ; deep chasms had opened below ; the embrasures of the casemates had been so shattered as no longer to present a regular outline ; the chimneys and roofs of the ...
... guns ; several of them were disabled ; the parapet walls had crumbled away ; deep chasms had opened below ; the embrasures of the casemates had been so shattered as no longer to present a regular outline ; the chimneys and roofs of 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