The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the ConfederatesWhen originally published in 1867, this book was described as "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 history, drawn from official sources, and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders." Edward A Pollard (1831-1872) was Editor of the Richmond Examiner during the Civil War; generally acknowledged as the ablest and most prolific Southern writer of the period. |
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... Constitution the result of an accident . - State Rights . - Amendments to the Constitution . - Nature of the American Union . - Not a Consolidated nation- ality . The Right of Secession . - The Union not the proclamation of a new civil ...
... Constitution the result of an accident . - State Rights . - Amendments to the Constitution . - Nature of the American Union . - Not a Consolidated nation- ality . The Right of Secession . - The Union not the proclamation of a new civil ...
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... Constitution . - Population as an element of pros- perity and power . - How this was thrown into the Northern scale . - Two sectional measures . - Comparisons of Southern representation in Congress at the date of the Constitution and in ...
... Constitution . - Population as an element of pros- perity and power . - How this was thrown into the Northern scale . - Two sectional measures . - Comparisons of Southern representation in Congress at the date of the Constitution and in ...
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... constitution and or- dinances with the subsequent policy of the Republican Party . - Curious fore- shadow of Southern subjugation . - The descent on Harper's Ferry . - Capture and execution of Brown . - His declaration . - Northern ...
... constitution and or- dinances with the subsequent policy of the Republican Party . - Curious fore- shadow of Southern subjugation . - The descent on Harper's Ferry . - Capture and execution of Brown . - His declaration . - Northern ...
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... Crisis in the South . - Early ideas of the war at Montgomery . - Secret history of the Confederate Constitution . - Southern opinion of Yankee soldiers . - What was CONTENTS . 1X thought of " King Cotton . " Vill CONTENTS .
... Crisis in the South . - Early ideas of the war at Montgomery . - Secret history of the Confederate Constitution . - Southern opinion of Yankee soldiers . - What was CONTENTS . 1X thought of " King Cotton . " Vill CONTENTS .
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... constitutional point at issue between M'Clellan and Lincoln . - The Radical wing of the Republican party . -The ... Constitution postponed ..... CHAPTER XXXV . 556 An intrigue in Richmond against Gen. Johnston . - Evidence of it ...
... constitutional point at issue between M'Clellan and Lincoln . - The Radical wing of the Republican party . -The ... Constitution postponed ..... CHAPTER XXXV . 556 An intrigue in Richmond against Gen. Johnston . - Evidence of it ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 33 |
CHAPTER II | 45 |
CHAPTER III | 54 |
CHAPTER IV | 63 |
Preparations of South Carolina to withdraw from the Union Passage of her Ordinance | 82 |
CHAPTER VI | 100 |
CHAPTER VII | 120 |
CHAPTER VIII | 134 |
CHAPTER XXIII | 385 |
CHAPTER XXIV | 401 |
CHAPTER XXV | 415 |
CHAPTER XXVI | 429 |
CHAPTER XXVII | 439 |
CHAPTER XXVIII | 453 |
CHAPTER XXIX | 464 |
CHAPTER XXX | 489 |
CHAPTER IX | 152 |
CHAPTER X | 175 |
CHAPTER XI | 185 |
CHAPTER XII | 198 |
CHAPTER XIII | 214 |
CHAPTER XIV | 232 |
CHAPTER XV | 245 |
CHAPTER XVI | 261 |
CHAPTER XVII | 278 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 295 |
CHAPTER XIX | 319 |
CHAPTER XX | 337 |
CHAPTER XXI | 356 |
CHAPTER XXII | 370 |
CHAPTER XXXI | 507 |
CHAPTER XXXII | 526 |
CHAPTER XXXIV | 556 |
CHAPTER XXXV | 576 |
CHAPTER XXXVI | 589 |
CHAPTER XXXVII | 606 |
CHAPTER XXXVIII | 616 |
CHAPTER XXXIX | 644 |
CHAPTER XL | 661 |
CHAPTER XLI | 679 |
CHAPTER XLII | 700 |
CHAPTER XLIII | 713 |
CHAPTER XLIV | 730 |
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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 reached 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 wounded
References to this book
Andrew Johnson: A Biographical Companion Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein,Richard Zuczek No preview available - 2001 |