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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Page v
... South produced two distinct communities instead of rival parties within one body politic . - The theory of a Political North and a Political South Its early recognition in the Convention of 1787. - Declaration of Madison . - Mr ...
... South produced two distinct communities instead of rival parties within one body politic . - The theory of a Political North and a Political South Its early recognition in the Convention of 1787. - Declaration of Madison . - Mr ...
Page vi
... South . - The Slavery ques- tion significant only of a contest for political power . - Differences between the Northern and Southern populations . - The anti - revolutionary period . - Traces of the modern " Yankee . " - How Slavery ...
... South . - The Slavery ques- tion significant only of a contest for political power . - Differences between the Northern and Southern populations . - The anti - revolutionary period . - Traces of the modern " Yankee . " - How Slavery ...
Page vii
... South.- " The John Brown raid . " - Identity of John Brown's provisional constitution and or- dinances with the subsequent policy of the Republican Party . - Curious fore- shadow of Southern subjugation . - The descent on Harper's Ferry ...
... South.- " The John Brown raid . " - Identity of John Brown's provisional constitution and or- dinances with the subsequent policy of the Republican Party . - Curious fore- shadow of Southern subjugation . - The descent on Harper's Ferry ...
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... South Carolina delegation . - A second deception . - The " Star of the West " affair . - The situation at the close of Buchanan's administration.— The country waiting for the Signal of Combat .. CHAPTER VI . 82 Character of Abraham ...
... South Carolina delegation . - A second deception . - The " Star of the West " affair . - The situation at the close of Buchanan's administration.— The country waiting for the Signal of Combat .. CHAPTER VI . 82 Character of Abraham ...
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... South in the material and means of war . - How the Confederacy was supplied with small arms . - Peculiar advantages of the South in the war . - The military value of space . - Lessons of history . - The success of the Southern ...
... South in the material and means of war . - How the Confederacy was supplied with small arms . - Peculiar advantages of the South in the war . - The military value of space . - Lessons of history . - The success of the Southern ...
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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