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 viii
... months ' war . " — Ells- worth and Billy Wilson . - Martial rage in the North . - Imperfect appreciation of the Crisis in the South . - Early ideas of the war at Montgomery . - Secret history of the Confederate Constitution . - Southern ...
... months ' war . " — Ells- worth and Billy Wilson . - Martial rage in the North . - Imperfect appreciation of the Crisis in the South . - Early ideas of the war at Montgomery . - Secret history of the Confederate Constitution . - Southern ...
Page xvii
... months of 1863. - General character of the war in the winter season . - The recapture of Galveston by the Confederates . - Fight between the Cottonboats and the Federal Fleet . - The Harriet Lane captured . — The 66 other Federal ...
... months of 1863. - General character of the war in the winter season . - The recapture of Galveston by the Confederates . - Fight between the Cottonboats and the Federal Fleet . - The Harriet Lane captured . — The 66 other Federal ...
Page xviii
... months of 1863. - Early resumption of the campaign in Virginia . The new Federal favourite , " Fighting Joe Hooker . " - The Battle of Chancellorsville . - Hooker's plan of operations . - His flaming address to his troops . -Critical ...
... months of 1863. - Early resumption of the campaign in Virginia . The new Federal favourite , " Fighting Joe Hooker . " - The Battle of Chancellorsville . - Hooker's plan of operations . - His flaming address to his troops . -Critical ...
Page xx
... months . - The Island not the key to Charleston . - Admiral Dahlgren refuses to ascend the harbour with his iron - clads . He summons Fort Sumter to surrender . - Beauregard's reply . - A boat - attack on the Fort . - Its disastrous ...
... months . - The Island not the key to Charleston . - Admiral Dahlgren refuses to ascend the harbour with his iron - clads . He summons Fort Sumter to surrender . - Beauregard's reply . - A boat - attack on the Fort . - Its disastrous ...
Page 69
... months the Kansas question occu- pied Congress , and held the country in anxiety and suspense . It was a contest for political power between North and South . The mere indus- trial interests or morals of slavery had nothing to do with ...
... months the Kansas question occu- pied Congress , and held the country in anxiety and suspense . It was a contest for political power between North and South . The mere indus- trial interests or morals of slavery had nothing to do with ...
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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