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 73
... hundred men with the following arms : two thousand Sharp's rifles , two hundred Maynard's revolvers , one thousand spears . I would have armed the whites with the rifles and revolvers , and the blacks with the spears ; they not being ...
... hundred men with the following arms : two thousand Sharp's rifles , two hundred Maynard's revolvers , one thousand spears . I would have armed the whites with the rifles and revolvers , and the blacks with the spears ; they not being ...
Page 123
... hundred tons , new , fully equipped , and nearly ready for sea , was only partially destroyed , and became , as we shall hereafter see , a famous prize of the Confederacy . At this time it was expected that Maryland would emulate the ...
... hundred tons , new , fully equipped , and nearly ready for sea , was only partially destroyed , and became , as we shall hereafter see , a famous prize of the Confederacy . At this time it was expected that Maryland would emulate the ...
Page 132
... hundred thousand men . It had been feared that in the haste of preparation for the mighty con- test that was to ensue , the South would find herself poorly provided with arms to contend with an enemy rich in the means and munitions of ...
... hundred thousand men . It had been feared that in the haste of preparation for the mighty con- test that was to ensue , the South would find herself poorly provided with arms to contend with an enemy rich in the means and munitions of ...
Page 136
... hundred wounded . In the little experience of war on both sides the action of Bethel was rated as a famous battle , and was paraded through many columns of the newspapers . The cotemporary estimate of its importance is ludicrous enough ...
... hundred wounded . In the little experience of war on both sides the action of Bethel was rated as a famous battle , and was paraded through many columns of the newspapers . The cotemporary estimate of its importance is ludicrous enough ...
Page 157
... hundred to Brig . - Gen . Slack , and about five hundred each to Brig . - Gens . Clark and Parsons ; making an entire force of about thirty - six hundred men . This , then , was the Patriot Army of Missouri . It was a heterogeneous ...
... hundred to Brig . - Gen . Slack , and about five hundred each to Brig . - Gens . Clark and Parsons ; making an entire force of about thirty - six hundred men . This , then , was the Patriot Army of Missouri . It was a heterogeneous ...
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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