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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Page 58
... soon to become known as " the Great West ; " and drew to these distant fields much of the numbers and wealth that had before tended to the South and Southwest for the rewards of enterprise . 2. But by far the more important cause of ...
... soon to become known as " the Great West ; " and drew to these distant fields much of the numbers and wealth that had before tended to the South and Southwest for the rewards of enterprise . 2. But by far the more important cause of ...
Page 59
... soon became a prominent and special branch of industry in the North ; and a course of sectional legislation was commenced to exact from the South a large portion of the proceeds of her industry , and bestow it upon the North in the ...
... soon became a prominent and special branch of industry in the North ; and a course of sectional legislation was commenced to exact from the South a large portion of the proceeds of her industry , and bestow it upon the North in the ...
Page 112
... soon lead to the repetition of the same bloody contests ? " In connection with this civil and geographical separation in our country , and almost necessarily resulting from it , subjects of some change of the ecclesiastical relations of ...
... soon lead to the repetition of the same bloody contests ? " In connection with this civil and geographical separation in our country , and almost necessarily resulting from it , subjects of some change of the ecclesiastical relations of ...
Page 125
... soon to be despatched . It either believed , or affected to believe , that the Southern States would be reduced in a few months . But it is to be remarked that the Federal Government had a particular purpose in reducing , in popular ...
... soon to be despatched . It either believed , or affected to believe , that the Southern States would be reduced in a few months . But it is to be remarked that the Federal Government had a particular purpose in reducing , in popular ...
Page 134
... soon get the wolf by the ears . " He probably meant in this figure of the backwoodsman that he would soon secure the two important passages into Virginia : that along the Orange and Alex- andria and Central Railroads towards Richmond ...
... soon get the wolf by the ears . " He probably meant in this figure of the backwoodsman that he would soon secure the two important passages into Virginia : that along the Orange and Alex- andria and Central Railroads towards Richmond ...
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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