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 History. Drawn from Official Sources, and Approved by the Most Distinguished Confederate Leaders |
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Page xxi
... corps on the way from Virginia to reinforce him.- Rosecrans pursues the Confederates , and exposes himself in detail . - The lost opportunity in M'Lenore's Cove . - Lines of Rosecrans ' advance . - Bragg resolves to advance and attack ...
... corps on the way from Virginia to reinforce him.- Rosecrans pursues the Confederates , and exposes himself in detail . - The lost opportunity in M'Lenore's Cove . - Lines of Rosecrans ' advance . - Bragg resolves to advance and attack ...
Page xxii
... corps panic - stricken . - Gen . Walker holds the field . The enemy continues his retreat to Alexandria . - His march a career of unparalleled cowardice and crime . - Large spoils of the Confederates . — The ex- tent of Banks ' disaster ...
... corps panic - stricken . - Gen . Walker holds the field . The enemy continues his retreat to Alexandria . - His march a career of unparalleled cowardice and crime . - Large spoils of the Confederates . — The ex- tent of Banks ' disaster ...
Page xxiii
... corps broken . - Longstreet comes up and turns the fortunes of the day . He is shot down by his own men . - Gen . Lee offers to lead a charge . - Touching remons- trances of the men . - The Confederate attack withdrawn . - Results of ...
... corps broken . - Longstreet comes up and turns the fortunes of the day . He is shot down by his own men . - Gen . Lee offers to lead a charge . - Touching remons- trances of the men . - The Confederate attack withdrawn . - Results of ...
Page xxvi
... corps of the enemy broken and put to rout . The enemy pursued through Middletown . - How the vigour of pursuit was lost . The foolish newspaper story about Gen. Sheridan's sudden appearance on the field . The Confederates demoralized by ...
... corps of the enemy broken and put to rout . The enemy pursued through Middletown . - How the vigour of pursuit was lost . The foolish newspaper story about Gen. Sheridan's sudden appearance on the field . The Confederates demoralized by ...
Page xxviii
... corps of the enemy and Kilpatrick's cavalry with fourteen thousand men . - Success on the Confederate right . - Johnston holds his ground against the whole of Sher- man's army , and retreats deliberately to Smithfield . - Sherman's ...
... corps of the enemy and Kilpatrick's cavalry with fourteen thousand men . - Success on the Confederate right . - Johnston holds his ground against the whole of Sher- man's army , and retreats deliberately to Smithfield . - Sherman's ...
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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 moved movement night North Northern occupied 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 wounded