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 HistoryThis book recounts the Civil War as a battle between "two nations of opposite civilizations" and that slavery enriched the South. |
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... Congress , in the year 1866 , by EDWARD A. POLLARD , In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Virginia . JOHN F. TROW & CO . PRINTERS , STEREOTYPERS , & ELECTROTYPERS , 50 GREENE STREET ...
... Congress , in the year 1866 , by EDWARD A. POLLARD , In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Virginia . JOHN F. TROW & CO . PRINTERS , STEREOTYPERS , & ELECTROTYPERS , 50 GREENE STREET ...
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... Congress . - A double justifi- cation of the withdrawal of the Southern States from the Union . - The right of Self ... Congress . - The Republi- can " ultimatum . " - " The Crittenden compromise . " - Measures of compromise and peace in ...
... Congress . - A double justifi- cation of the withdrawal of the Southern States from the Union . - The right of Self ... Congress . - The Republi- can " ultimatum . " - " The Crittenden compromise . " - Measures of compromise and peace in ...
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... Congress in Washington . - New development of Northern policy . - Lincoln's po- litical discovery . - His remarkable measures of War . - An era of despotism.— Violent acts of Congress . - The seed of Abolition . - Suspension of the ...
... Congress in Washington . - New development of Northern policy . - Lincoln's po- litical discovery . - His remarkable measures of War . - An era of despotism.— Violent acts of Congress . - The seed of Abolition . - Suspension of the ...
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... Congress ... 198 CHAPTER XIII . True causes of the Confederate disasters in the second year of the war . - The enemy's " Anaconda plan . " - Rebukes to the vanity of the Confederates . - The sum of their disasters . — Inauguration of ...
... Congress ... 198 CHAPTER XIII . True causes of the Confederate disasters in the second year of the war . - The enemy's " Anaconda plan . " - Rebukes to the vanity of the Confederates . - The sum of their disasters . — Inauguration of ...
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... Congress.— Its vigour . The old Provisional Congress . - Its measures . - Its echoes to Federal legislation . The sequestration law . - Silly and demagogical military legislation.— The " Sixty Days ' furlough " law . - Alarm of Gen ...
... Congress.— Its vigour . The old Provisional Congress . - Its measures . - Its echoes to Federal legislation . The sequestration law . - Silly and demagogical military legislation.— The " Sixty Days ' furlough " law . - Alarm of Gen ...
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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 morning moved movement night North Northern 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 whole wounded