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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... five thousand spare muskets in the Confederacy . - Paltry legislation of Congress . - Grasping at shadows .. 644 CHAPTER XL . Gen. Sherman's new base at Savannah . - He prepares to march through the Carolinas.- Gen. Grant's first idea ...
... five thousand spare muskets in the Confederacy . - Paltry legislation of Congress . - Grasping at shadows .. 644 CHAPTER XL . Gen. Sherman's new base at Savannah . - He prepares to march through the Carolinas.- Gen. Grant's first idea ...
Page 71
... five fanatics , of whom ten where white men and the remaining twenty - five negroes of various shades of colour . John Brown , having thus prefaced his expedition into Virginia , collected a small company of insurgents , black and white ...
... five fanatics , of whom ten where white men and the remaining twenty - five negroes of various shades of colour . John Brown , having thus prefaced his expedition into Virginia , collected a small company of insurgents , black and white ...
Page 96
... five companies of Federal troops within his reach ; and he could only have intended in proposing such an impracticable measure to make a certain reputation rather as a politician than as a general . Again , when , six weeks later , Gen ...
... five companies of Federal troops within his reach ; and he could only have intended in proposing such an impracticable measure to make a certain reputation rather as a politician than as a general . Again , when , six weeks later , Gen ...
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... five thousand rifles , with machinery for the purpose of manufacturing arms , capable with a sufficient force of workmen , of turning out twenty - five thousand muskets a year . Movements to secure these places and their advantages were ...
... five thousand rifles , with machinery for the purpose of manufacturing arms , capable with a sufficient force of workmen , of turning out twenty - five thousand muskets a year . Movements to secure these places and their advantages were ...
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... and unworthy of any serious foreign attention . It was in this view Mr. Lincoln had framed his procla- mation , calling for an army of seventy - five thousand men . He took especial pains to model this paper after a Riot Act.
... and unworthy of any serious foreign attention . It was in this view Mr. Lincoln had framed his procla- mation , calling for an army of seventy - five thousand men . He took especial pains to model this paper after a Riot Act.
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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