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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... narrative that will keep his attention close to the main movement of the story , and put instruction as to causes hand in hand with the information of events . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. True value of the Federal principle iv INTRODUCTION .
... narrative that will keep his attention close to the main movement of the story , and put instruction as to causes hand in hand with the information of events . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. True value of the Federal principle iv INTRODUCTION .
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... causes of disunion . - The sectional animosity . - The geographical line in the Union . - How the differences between North and South produced two distinct communities instead of rival parties within one body politic . - The theory of a ...
... causes of disunion . - The sectional animosity . - The geographical line in the Union . - How the differences between North and South produced two distinct communities instead of rival parties within one body politic . - The theory of a ...
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... causes . - Effect of the Louisiana purchase on the tides of emigration . - Unequal Federal legislation , as a cause of the sectional lapse of the South in the Union . - The key to the political history of America . — A great defect of ...
... causes . - Effect of the Louisiana purchase on the tides of emigration . - Unequal Federal legislation , as a cause of the sectional lapse of the South in the Union . - The key to the political history of America . — A great defect of ...
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... causes of failure . ..120 CHAPTER VIII . Mr. Lincoln's remark about the wolf . - His designs upon Virginia . - Federal occupation of Alexandria . - Tragedy at the Marshall House . - Jackson , the martyr . - The affair of Great Bethel ...
... causes of failure . ..120 CHAPTER VIII . Mr. Lincoln's remark about the wolf . - His designs upon Virginia . - Federal occupation of Alexandria . - Tragedy at the Marshall House . - Jackson , the martyr . - The affair of Great Bethel ...
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... 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 the Permanent Government of the.
... 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 the Permanent Government of 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