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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... occupy Ball's Bluff . - Splendid charge of the Confederates . - Death of Col. Baker . - The enemy driven into the River . An appalling spectacle of death . - Misrepresentations in Washington.- Morale of M'Clellan's army . - The affair ...
... occupy Ball's Bluff . - Splendid charge of the Confederates . - Death of Col. Baker . - The enemy driven into the River . An appalling spectacle of death . - Misrepresentations in Washington.- Morale of M'Clellan's army . - The affair ...
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... occupied more than the water - slopes of a continent , it might be supposed that the men who formed the Constitution would have prepared a full and explicit article for the government of the territories . That vast and intri- cate ...
... occupied more than the water - slopes of a continent , it might be supposed that the men who formed the Constitution would have prepared a full and explicit article for the government of the territories . That vast and intri- cate ...
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... occupied the position of an inferiour , and was designated as the spotted and degraded part of America . THE JOHN BROWN RAID . Other events were to repeat and enlarge the shock given to the Union by the Kansas controversy . In October ...
... occupied the position of an inferiour , and was designated as the spotted and degraded part of America . THE JOHN BROWN RAID . Other events were to repeat and enlarge the shock given to the Union by the Kansas controversy . In October ...
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... occupied the arsenal and armory building . A white confederate , named Cook , went out in command of a party for the purpose of getting black recruits from the adjoining estates of slave- holders . He arrested Col. Lewis Washington in ...
... occupied the arsenal and armory building . A white confederate , named Cook , went out in command of a party for the purpose of getting black recruits from the adjoining estates of slave- holders . He arrested Col. Lewis Washington in ...
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... occupied Fort Sumter with a view of strengthening his position . This movement was effected as a sur- prise under cover of night . The place in which Major Anderson had now taken refuge was pronounced by military critics to be well ...
... occupied Fort Sumter with a view of strengthening his position . This movement was effected as a sur- prise under cover of night . The place in which Major Anderson had now taken refuge was pronounced by military critics to be well ...
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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