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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... prepare for the reader a compact and logical narrative that will keep his attention close to the main movement of the story , and put instruction as to causes hand in hand with the information of events . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. True ...
... prepare for the reader a compact and logical narrative that will keep his attention close to the main movement of the story , and put instruction as to causes hand in hand with the information of events . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. True ...
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... prepared a full and explicit article for the government of the territories . That vast and intri- cate subject - the power of the General Government over the territories , the true nature of these establishments , the status and ...
... prepared a full and explicit article for the government of the territories . That vast and intri- cate subject - the power of the General Government over the territories , the true nature of these establishments , the status and ...
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... prepared for , and celebrated by master and slave with music and feasting , and great concourse of friends and relations ; when gold was kept in chests , after the downfall of Continental paper , and weighed in scales , and lent to ...
... prepared for , and celebrated by master and slave with music and feasting , and great concourse of friends and relations ; when gold was kept in chests , after the downfall of Continental paper , and weighed in scales , and lent to ...
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... prepared to respond to the bold and adventurous initiative of Southern independence . But it should be stated that the other States of the South , in agreeing to what was called , in severe irony , the Compromise of 1850 , declared that ...
... prepared to respond to the bold and adventurous initiative of Southern independence . But it should be stated that the other States of the South , in agreeing to what was called , in severe irony , the Compromise of 1850 , declared that ...
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... prepare your weapons , threaten , strike , shoot , stab , bring on civil war , dissolve the Union ; nay , annihilate the solar system , if you will - do all this , more , less , better , worse - anything ; do what you will , sirs - you ...
... prepare your weapons , threaten , strike , shoot , stab , bring on civil war , dissolve the Union ; nay , annihilate the solar system , if you will - do all this , more , less , better , worse - anything ; do what you will , sirs - you ...
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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