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 vi
... tion significant only of a contest for political power . - Differences between the Northern and Southern populations . - The anti - revolutionary period . - Traces of the modern " Yankee . " - How Slavery established a peculiar ...
... tion significant only of a contest for political power . - Differences between the Northern and Southern populations . - The anti - revolutionary period . - Traces of the modern " Yankee . " - How Slavery established a peculiar ...
Page x
... tion emancipating the slaves . - Its novelty and brutality . - Repudiated at Washing- ton . The siege of Lexington . - Its surrender to Price . - Gallantry of Col. Mulligan . -Critical position of Price . - His disappointment of ...
... tion emancipating the slaves . - Its novelty and brutality . - Repudiated at Washing- ton . The siege of Lexington . - Its surrender to Price . - Gallantry of Col. Mulligan . -Critical position of Price . - His disappointment of ...
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... tion . Misrepresentations of it . - An act of malice towards the master , not one of mercy to the slave . - Pretence of " military necessity . " - Dishonour of the plea.- Proof of its falsehood . - Effect of the Emancipation ...
... tion . Misrepresentations of it . - An act of malice towards the master , not one of mercy to the slave . - Pretence of " military necessity . " - Dishonour of the plea.- Proof of its falsehood . - Effect of the Emancipation ...
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... tion . - Death of Gen. Stuart . - Battles of Spottsylvania Court - house . - Combat of Anderson's corps . - The fighting on the 10th May . - The battle on the 12th . - A salient of the Confederate line taken . - Great slaughter of the ...
... tion . - Death of Gen. Stuart . - Battles of Spottsylvania Court - house . - Combat of Anderson's corps . - The fighting on the 10th May . - The battle on the 12th . - A salient of the Confederate line taken . - Great slaughter of the ...
Page xxvii
... tion of " raw - head - and - bloody - bones " stories . - Humanity of the Confederate authorities . A terrible record of Federal cruelties . - Barbarous punishments in Northern prisons . - Last humane proposition of Commissioner Ould ...
... tion of " raw - head - and - bloody - bones " stories . - Humanity of the Confederate authorities . A terrible record of Federal cruelties . - Barbarous punishments in Northern prisons . - Last humane proposition of Commissioner Ould ...
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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