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 x
... command of the Federal forces in Missouri . - His proclama- tion emancipating the slaves . - Its novelty and brutality . - Repudiated at Washing- ton . The siege of Lexington . - Its surrender to Price . - Gallantry of Col. Mulligan ...
... command of the Federal forces in Missouri . - His proclama- tion emancipating the slaves . - Its novelty and brutality . - Repudiated at Washing- ton . The siege of Lexington . - Its surrender to Price . - Gallantry of Col. Mulligan ...
Page xi
... command and position .-- Battle of Fishing Creek . The Confederate right in Kentucky . - Gen . Crittenden's command in ex- treme straits . - Difficulty in subsisting it . - The decision to give battle to the enemy . - Zollicoffer's ...
... command and position .-- Battle of Fishing Creek . The Confederate right in Kentucky . - Gen . Crittenden's command in ex- treme straits . - Difficulty in subsisting it . - The decision to give battle to the enemy . - Zollicoffer's ...
Page xii
... command . - An obstinate fight . - Death of M'Culloch . - The Confederate success indecisive and imperfect . - Reasons for Van Dorn's retreat . - Confederate designs upon Missouri abandoned for the present . - Transfer of Van Dorn's and ...
... command . - An obstinate fight . - Death of M'Culloch . - The Confederate success indecisive and imperfect . - Reasons for Van Dorn's retreat . - Confederate designs upon Missouri abandoned for the present . - Transfer of Van Dorn's and ...
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... command .-- His plan of operations . - What was proposed by the reduction of the works on Morris Island . A base of operations on Folly Island . - How Gen. Beauregard was blinded and deceived . - Forty - seven guns of the enemy unmasked ...
... command .-- His plan of operations . - What was proposed by the reduction of the works on Morris Island . A base of operations on Folly Island . - How Gen. Beauregard was blinded and deceived . - Forty - seven guns of the enemy unmasked ...
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... command at Cumberland Gap . - His correspondence with Gen. Buckner . The defences of the Gap imperfect . - Insufficiency of the garrison . - Why Gen. Frazier surrendered it . - Two lines of operations now opened against Chattanooga ...
... command at Cumberland Gap . - His correspondence with Gen. Buckner . The defences of the Gap imperfect . - Insufficiency of the garrison . - Why Gen. Frazier surrendered it . - Two lines of operations now opened against Chattanooga ...
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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