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 xx
... Fire . " - " The Swamp Angel . " - Gillmore's notice of bombardment . - Sharp and memorable reply of Gen. Beauregard . Cowardly rejoicings in the North - The bombardment a failure . - Attempted demolition of Fort Sumter . - How far the ...
... Fire . " - " The Swamp Angel . " - Gillmore's notice of bombardment . - Sharp and memorable reply of Gen. Beauregard . Cowardly rejoicings in the North - The bombardment a failure . - Attempted demolition of Fort Sumter . - How far the ...
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... fire . - Sherman's " bummers . " - What was thought of them in Washington . - Sherman turns his columns on Columbia . - Disposition of the Confederate forces between Augusta and Charleston . - Why Columbia was not defended . - Gallantry ...
... fire . - Sherman's " bummers . " - What was thought of them in Washington . - Sherman turns his columns on Columbia . - Disposition of the Confederate forces between Augusta and Charleston . - Why Columbia was not defended . - Gallantry ...
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... fire . - Sherman's " bummers . " - What was thought of them in Washington . - Sherman turns his columns on Columbia . - Disposition of the Confederate forces between Augusta and Charleston . - Why Columbia was not defended . - Gallantry ...
... fire . - Sherman's " bummers . " - What was thought of them in Washington . - Sherman turns his columns on Columbia . - Disposition of the Confederate forces between Augusta and Charleston . - Why Columbia was not defended . - Gallantry ...
Page 107
... fire , and thirteen hundred yards distant -a feat which Capt . Fox argued was entirely practicable , and that many safe examples of it had been furnished by the Crimean War . In this conflict of counsels the Washington administration ...
... fire , and thirteen hundred yards distant -a feat which Capt . Fox argued was entirely practicable , and that many safe examples of it had been furnished by the Crimean War . In this conflict of counsels the Washington administration ...
Page 110
... fire from Fort Johnson was quickly followed by that of Moultrie , Cumming's Point , and the floating battery . The incessant flash of the ordnance made a circle of flame , and the bursting of bombs over and in Fort Sumter became more ...
... fire from Fort Johnson was quickly followed by that of Moultrie , Cumming's Point , and the floating battery . The incessant flash of the ordnance made a circle of flame , and the bursting of bombs over and in Fort Sumter became more ...
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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