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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... give battle to the enemy . - Zollicoffer's brigade . - The contested hill . - Death of Zollicoffer . - Defeat of the Confederates . - Crittenden crosses the Cumberland . — His losses . — Import- ance of the disaster . — Designs of the ...
... give battle to the enemy . - Zollicoffer's brigade . - The contested hill . - Death of Zollicoffer . - Defeat of the Confederates . - Crittenden crosses the Cumberland . — His losses . — Import- ance of the disaster . — Designs of the ...
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... give a full development and a proper accuracy to what was certainly ill - performed work in it . The following Amendments were embodied in the official declarations of at least six of the States , coupled with their ratification of the ...
... give a full development and a proper accuracy to what was certainly ill - performed work in it . The following Amendments were embodied in the official declarations of at least six of the States , coupled with their ratification of the ...
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... give it its full development . But the intolerance of the Puritan , the painful thrift of the Northern colonists , their external forms of piety , their jaundiced legislation , their convenient mor- als , their lack of the ...
... give it its full development . But the intolerance of the Puritan , the painful thrift of the Northern colonists , their external forms of piety , their jaundiced legislation , their convenient mor- als , their lack of the ...
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... give in their adhesion to the States Rights school of politics . But this Democratic alliance with the South was one only for party pur- poses . It was extravagant of professions , but it carefully avoided trials of its fidelity ; it ...
... give in their adhesion to the States Rights school of politics . But this Democratic alliance with the South was one only for party pur- poses . It was extravagant of professions , but it carefully avoided trials of its fidelity ; it ...
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... independently of this act , the Convention would be bound to submit any portion of the Constitution to a popular vote , in order to give it validity ; and he argued the fallacy and unreasonableness of such an opinion , by insisting that it.
... independently of this act , the Convention would be bound to submit any portion of the Constitution to a popular vote , in order to give it validity ; and he argued the fallacy and unreasonableness of such an opinion , by insisting that it.
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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