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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... Union . - Not a Consolidated nation- ality . The Right of Secession . - The Union not the proclamation of a new civil polity . - Not a political revolution . - A convenience of the States , with no mission apart from the States . - The ...
... Union . - Not a Consolidated nation- ality . The Right of Secession . - The Union not the proclamation of a new civil polity . - Not a political revolution . - A convenience of the States , with no mission apart from the States . - The ...
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... Union . - Calhoun's picture of the Union . - A noble vision never realized .... 45 CHAPTER III . Material decline of the South in the Union . - Shifting of the numbers and enterprise of the country from the Southern to the Northern ...
... Union . - Calhoun's picture of the Union . - A noble vision never realized .... 45 CHAPTER III . Material decline of the South in the Union . - Shifting of the numbers and enterprise of the country from the Southern to the Northern ...
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... Union was a concession to the South . - Hypocrisy of this party . - Indications of the coming catastrophe of disunion . The presidential canvass of 1860. - Declarations of the Democratic Party . The Charleston Convention . - Secession ...
... Union was a concession to the South . - Hypocrisy of this party . - Indications of the coming catastrophe of disunion . The presidential canvass of 1860. - Declarations of the Democratic Party . The Charleston Convention . - Secession ...
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... Union . - Why he joined the Confederate cause . - His speech in the State House at Richmond . His organization of the military force of Virginia . - Military council in Richmond . The early reputation of Lee ..... 100 CHAPTER VII . In ...
... Union . - Why he joined the Confederate cause . - His speech in the State House at Richmond . His organization of the military force of Virginia . - Military council in Richmond . The early reputation of Lee ..... 100 CHAPTER VII . In ...
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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
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Andrew Johnson: A Biographical Companion Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein,Richard Zuczek No preview available - 2001 |