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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... hand in hand with the information of events . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. True value of the Federal principle iv INTRODUCTION .
... hand in hand with the information of events . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. True value of the Federal principle iv INTRODUCTION .
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... hands of the North equivalent to sectional despotism . - The North " acting in mass . " - The logical necessity of disunion ...... CHAPTER V. 64 Preparations of South Carolina to withdraw from the Union . - Passage of her Ordinance of ...
... hands of the North equivalent to sectional despotism . - The North " acting in mass . " - The logical necessity of disunion ...... CHAPTER V. 64 Preparations of South Carolina to withdraw from the Union . - Passage of her Ordinance of ...
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... hands of speculators . - Reflection upon the want of the commercial or business faculty in the Southern mind . - A stock of childish expedients ... 464 CHAPTER XXX . A train of Confederate successes in the beginning of 1864. - The ...
... hands of speculators . - Reflection upon the want of the commercial or business faculty in the Southern mind . - A stock of childish expedients ... 464 CHAPTER XXX . A train of Confederate successes in the beginning of 1864. - The ...
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... hands to designate themselves to the marines , and thus escape their fire , were hailed with shouts of congratulation as they passed out of the building . While suffering from a wound supposed to be mortal , Brown made the following ...
... hands to designate themselves to the marines , and thus escape their fire , were hailed with shouts of congratulation as they passed out of the building . While suffering from a wound supposed to be mortal , Brown made the following ...
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... hands of a party , but at those of the Northern power . Every Northern State but New Jersey had voted for Mr. Lincoln ; every Southern State had voted against him . He was not known as a statesman , whose name might therefore be one of ...
... hands of a party , but at those of the Northern power . Every Northern State but New Jersey had voted for Mr. Lincoln ; every Southern State had voted against him . He was not known as a statesman , whose name might therefore be one of ...
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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