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 xxi
... supplies . -He hopes to starve the garrison into surrender . - Reorganization of the Federal armies in the west . - Gen . Grant's new and large command .-- His first task to relieve Thomas in Chattanooga . — His successful lodgment on ...
... supplies . -He hopes to starve the garrison into surrender . - Reorganization of the Federal armies in the west . - Gen . Grant's new and large command .-- His first task to relieve Thomas in Chattanooga . — His successful lodgment on ...
Page xxii
... supplies in the Con- federacy in January , 1862. - Effect of the campaigns in Kentucky and Tennessee on the question of subsistence . - Proposition to get meat through the enemy's lines . -Obstinate objections of President Davis . - His ...
... supplies in the Con- federacy in January , 1862. - Effect of the campaigns in Kentucky and Tennessee on the question of subsistence . - Proposition to get meat through the enemy's lines . -Obstinate objections of President Davis . - His ...
Page xxvi
... supplies . - Pillage of Madison . - Concentration of the enemy's forces at Milledgeville . - An affair of militia at Griswoldsville . - Kil- patrick's demonstration on Augusta . — Statement of Confederate forces there.- Sherman's march ...
... supplies . - Pillage of Madison . - Concentration of the enemy's forces at Milledgeville . - An affair of militia at Griswoldsville . - Kil- patrick's demonstration on Augusta . — Statement of Confederate forces there.- Sherman's march ...
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... supplies . - Major French's letter . - Lee's troops bordering on starvation .-- Eight points presented to Congress . - What it did .-- The condition of the currency . -Congress curtails the currency one - third . — Act of 17th February ...
... supplies . - Major French's letter . - Lee's troops bordering on starvation .-- Eight points presented to Congress . - What it did .-- The condition of the currency . -Congress curtails the currency one - third . — Act of 17th February ...
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... supplies were needed ; and often the resolutions of Congress were either wholly neglected or positively repudiated by the States . It became ap- parent that the common agent must be clothed with actual power , and this could only be ...
... supplies were needed ; and often the resolutions of Congress were either wholly neglected or positively repudiated by the States . It became ap- parent that the common agent must be clothed with actual power , and this could only be ...
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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