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 33
... never been adopted by States which had approached a mature condition , and had passed the period of pupillage . It is not to be denied that the Federal principle is valuable in peculiar circumstances and for temporary ends . But it is ...
... never been adopted by States which had approached a mature condition , and had passed the period of pupillage . It is not to be denied that the Federal principle is valuable in peculiar circumstances and for temporary ends . But it is ...
Page 42
... never breathed an opposite sentiment , " and that he had reason to love the Union , when he reflected that nearly half his life had been passed in its service , and that whatever public reputation he had acquired was indis- solubly ...
... never breathed an opposite sentiment , " and that he had reason to love the Union , when he reflected that nearly half his life had been passed in its service , and that whatever public reputation he had acquired was indis- solubly ...
Page 51
... never entirely subdue a sneaking sense of its inferiority . There is a singularly bitter hate which is inseparable from a sense of inferiority ; and every close observer of Northern society has discovered how there lurked in every form ...
... never entirely subdue a sneaking sense of its inferiority . There is a singularly bitter hate which is inseparable from a sense of inferiority ; and every close observer of Northern society has discovered how there lurked in every form ...
Page 52
... never was any lack of rhetorical fervour for the Union ; its praises were sounded in every note of tumid literature , and it was familiarly entitled " the glorious . " But the North worshipped the Union in a very low , commercial sense ...
... never was any lack of rhetorical fervour for the Union ; its praises were sounded in every note of tumid literature , and it was familiarly entitled " the glorious . " But the North worshipped the Union in a very low , commercial sense ...
Page 60
... never fails to awaken . ' · 99 The early history of the tariff makes a plain exhibition of the stark outrage perpetrated by it upon the Southern States . The measure of 1816 had originated in the necessities of a public revenue - for ...
... never fails to awaken . ' · 99 The early history of the tariff makes a plain exhibition of the stark outrage perpetrated by it upon the Southern States . The measure of 1816 had originated in the necessities of a public revenue - for ...
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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