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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... land system . - The Chesapeake . - Alexandria . - George Wash- ington's great commercial project . - Two pictures of Virginia : 1789 and 1829.— An example of the decline of the South in material prosperity . - This decline not ✓ to be ...
... land system . - The Chesapeake . - Alexandria . - George Wash- ington's great commercial project . - Two pictures of Virginia : 1789 and 1829.— An example of the decline of the South in material prosperity . - This decline not ✓ to be ...
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... land rivers . The avenue to Nashville .-- Grant's ascent of the Tennessee . - Cap- ture of Fort Henry . - Noble and gallant conduct of Gen. Tilghman . - Battle of Fort Donelson . - Johnston's reasons for making a battle there ...
... land rivers . The avenue to Nashville .-- Grant's ascent of the Tennessee . - Cap- ture of Fort Henry . - Noble and gallant conduct of Gen. Tilghman . - Battle of Fort Donelson . - Johnston's reasons for making a battle there ...
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... land crowned with abun- dance , where starvation was unknown , where order was preserved by an unpaid police ; and where many fertile regions accessible only to the labour of the African were brought into usefulness , and blessed the ...
... land crowned with abun- dance , where starvation was unknown , where order was preserved by an unpaid police ; and where many fertile regions accessible only to the labour of the African were brought into usefulness , and blessed the ...
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... lands , forest and swamps often gave to the eye a dreary picture ; there were no thick and intricate nets of internal improvements to astonish and bewilder the traveller , no coun- try picturesque with towns and villages to please his ...
... lands , forest and swamps often gave to the eye a dreary picture ; there were no thick and intricate nets of internal improvements to astonish and bewilder the traveller , no coun- try picturesque with towns and villages to please his ...
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... LAND SYSTEM . THE CHESA- PEAKE . - ALEXANDRIA . — GEORGE WASHINGTON'S GREAT COMMERCIAL PROJECT . - TWO PICTURES OF VIRGINIA : 1789 AND 1829. - AN EXAMPLE OF THE DECLINE OF THE SOUTH IN MATERIAL PROSPERITY.THIS DECLINE NOT TO BE ...
... LAND SYSTEM . THE CHESA- PEAKE . - ALEXANDRIA . — GEORGE WASHINGTON'S GREAT COMMERCIAL PROJECT . - TWO PICTURES OF VIRGINIA : 1789 AND 1829. - AN EXAMPLE OF THE DECLINE OF THE SOUTH IN MATERIAL PROSPERITY.THIS DECLINE NOT TO 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 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