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 34
... called to the fulfilment of another political destiny . And here it is especially to be remarked that those statesmen of the South , who for more than thirty years before the war of 1861 despaired of the continuation of the Union , were ...
... called to the fulfilment of another political destiny . And here it is especially to be remarked that those statesmen of the South , who for more than thirty years before the war of 1861 despaired of the continuation of the Union , were ...
Page 36
... called by Congress " for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation , and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein , as shall , when agreed to in Congress ...
... called by Congress " for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation , and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein , as shall , when agreed to in Congress ...
Page 49
... subordination is the necessary condition of the black man ; and that the so - called " slavery " in the South was but the precise adjustment of this subordination by law . of the modern Yankee ; although it remained for those 4.
... subordination is the necessary condition of the black man ; and that the so - called " slavery " in the South was but the precise adjustment of this subordination by law . of the modern Yankee ; although it remained for those 4.
Page 61
... called the tariff into existence had completely passed away , and that the government was , in fact , collecting about twice as much revenue as its usual expenditures required , the North still held to its demands for pro- tection , and ...
... called the tariff into existence had completely passed away , and that the government was , in fact , collecting about twice as much revenue as its usual expenditures required , the North still held to its demands for pro- tection , and ...
Page 64
... called , in severe irony , the Compromise of 1850 , declared that it was the last concession . they would make to the North ; that they took it as a " finality , " and that the slavery question was thereafter to be excluded from the ...
... called , in severe irony , the Compromise of 1850 , declared that it was the last concession . they would make to the North ; that they took it as a " finality , " and that the slavery question was thereafter to be excluded from the ...
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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