Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of AmericaSupreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes claimed that historian Benson J. Lossing did more than any other man to make history interesting and popular. Lossing wrote his comprehensive three-volume history of the Civil War at a time when the facts were still fresh. Originally published in 1866, Volume One covers the period from the political conventions held in the spring of 1860 to midsummer 1861 and the Battle of Bull Run. Lossing accompanies his narratives of marches, battles, and sieges with maps and plans, includes biographical sketches of the prominent people from both sides of the conflict, and illustrates his history with hundreds of drawings and engravings by the author and others. |
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... Confederacy of " Seceded " States proposed , 250 , - Provisional Constitution adopted , 251. - South Carolinians rebellious - Jefferson Davis elected “ President , ” and Alexander II . Stephens Vice - President " of the Confederacy ...
... Confederacy of " Seceded " States proposed , 250 , - Provisional Constitution adopted , 251. - South Carolinians rebellious - Jefferson Davis elected “ President , ” and Alexander II . Stephens Vice - President " of the Confederacy ...
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... Confederacy , that statesman and patriot said : " It is painful to see the unceasing efforts made to alarm the South , by imputations against the North of unconstitu- tional designs on the subject of Slavery . " Madison and Clay were ...
... Confederacy , that statesman and patriot said : " It is painful to see the unceasing efforts made to alarm the South , by imputations against the North of unconstitu- tional designs on the subject of Slavery . " Madison and Clay were ...
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... Confederacy . " - " Rather than submit one moment to Black Re- publican rule , " Wise wrote to an old friend of his father , in the North , " I would fight to the last drop of blood to resist its fanatical oppression . Our minds are ...
... Confederacy . " - " Rather than submit one moment to Black Re- publican rule , " Wise wrote to an old friend of his father , in the North , " I would fight to the last drop of blood to resist its fanatical oppression . Our minds are ...
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... confederacy of the ' Sovereign States , " and that the public mind was constrained to " rise above the consideration of details in the administration of law and justice , up to the vast and solemn issues that have been forced upon us ...
... confederacy of the ' Sovereign States , " and that the public mind was constrained to " rise above the consideration of details in the administration of law and justice , up to the vast and solemn issues that have been forced upon us ...
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... Confederacy by foreign powers . " If we wait for co - operation , " he said , " Slavery and State Rights will be aban- doned , State Sovereignty and the cause of the South lost forever ; and we would be subjected to a dominion , the ...
... Confederacy by foreign powers . " If we wait for co - operation , " he said , " Slavery and State Rights will be aban- doned , State Sovereignty and the cause of the South lost forever ; and we would be subjected to a dominion , the ...
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