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
... night attack on the enemy's new position , but is repulsed .-- The enemy accomplishes the relief of Chattanooga . - Detachment of Longstreet from Bragg's front to operate against Knoxville . This unfortunate movement the work of ...
... night attack on the enemy's new position , but is repulsed .-- The enemy accomplishes the relief of Chattanooga . - Detachment of Longstreet from Bragg's front to operate against Knoxville . This unfortunate movement the work of ...
Page xxiii
... Night attack of the enemy . The second day's battle . - Hill's 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 ...
... Night attack of the enemy . The second day's battle . - Hill's 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 ...
Page 72
... night , were awaiting his orders to act . He imme- diately placed his command within the armory grounds , so as to com- pletely surround the fire - engine house where the insurgents had taken refuge . In it , Brown and his party had ...
... night , were awaiting his orders to act . He imme- diately placed his command within the armory grounds , so as to com- pletely surround the fire - engine house where the insurgents had taken refuge . In it , Brown and his party had ...
Page 107
... night at right angles to the Confederate line of fire , and thirteen hundred yards distant -a feat which Capt . Fox argued was entirely practicable , and that many safe examples of it had been furnished by the Crimean War . In this ...
... night at right angles to the Confederate line of fire , and thirteen hundred yards distant -a feat which Capt . Fox argued was entirely practicable , and that many safe examples of it had been furnished by the Crimean War . In this ...
Page 144
... night of the 20th of July it was evident that the enemy was in motion . As the lights around Centreville seemed to die out about midnight , low murmuring noises reached the Confederate out - posts , as if large bodies of men were ...
... night of the 20th of July it was evident that the enemy was in motion . As the lights around Centreville seemed to die out about midnight , low murmuring noises reached the Confederate out - posts , as if large bodies of men were ...
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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