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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... held in check by eleven thousand Confederates . - Outwitted again by Johnston . - Retreat of the Confederates up the Peninsula . - Strategic merit of the movement . Battle of Williamsburg . - Longstreet's division engaged . Success of ...
... held in check by eleven thousand Confederates . - Outwitted again by Johnston . - Retreat of the Confederates up the Peninsula . - Strategic merit of the movement . Battle of Williamsburg . - Longstreet's division engaged . Success of ...
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... held at bay by an army of fifty thousand men . - Gaseous nonsense in New York about Grant's generalship . His operations in May absurd and contemptible failures ....... CHAPTER X X X II . 507 Position of the armies around Richmond ...
... held at bay by an army of fifty thousand men . - Gaseous nonsense in New York about Grant's generalship . His operations in May absurd and contemptible failures ....... CHAPTER X X X II . 507 Position of the armies around Richmond ...
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... held the doctrine that the country had outlived the necessities of the Union , and had become involved in the abuses of a system , admirable enough in its early conception , but diverted from its original objects and now existing only ...
... held the doctrine that the country had outlived the necessities of the Union , and had become involved in the abuses of a system , admirable enough in its early conception , but diverted from its original objects and now existing only ...
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... held to service or labour , ' and in a mixed and empirical rule of popular representation . However these provisions may imply the true status of slavery , how much is it to be regretted that the Convention did not make ( what might ...
... held to service or labour , ' and in a mixed and empirical rule of popular representation . However these provisions may imply the true status of slavery , how much is it to be regretted that the Convention did not make ( what might ...
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... held the front rank of the States . Patrick Henry designated her as " the most mighty State in the Union . " " Does not Virginia , " exclaimed this orator , " surpass every State in the Union in the number of inhabitants , extent of ...
... held the front rank of the States . Patrick Henry designated her as " the most mighty State in the Union . " " Does not Virginia , " exclaimed this orator , " surpass every State in the Union in the number of inhabitants , extent 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