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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... Republic is not a pleas- ant one for an American citizen . It would be more consonant with his wishes to bury in oblivion all knowledge of those events which compose the materials of the sorrowful story of a strife among his brethren ...
... Republic is not a pleas- ant one for an American citizen . It would be more consonant with his wishes to bury in oblivion all knowledge of those events which compose the materials of the sorrowful story of a strife among his brethren ...
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... Republic , I have given prominence to their sayings and those of their co - workers and abettors , not with a partisan spirit , to keep animosities alive ( for I would gladly blot their utter- ances from the memory of man ) , but that ...
... Republic , I have given prominence to their sayings and those of their co - workers and abettors , not with a partisan spirit , to keep animosities alive ( for I would gladly blot their utter- ances from the memory of man ) , but that ...
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... Republic , and an attempt , in defiance of the laws of Divine Equity , to establish an Empire upon a basis of injustice and a denial of the dearest rights of man . That conspiracy budded when the Constitution of the Republic became the ...
... Republic , and an attempt , in defiance of the laws of Divine Equity , to establish an Empire upon a basis of injustice and a denial of the dearest rights of man . That conspiracy budded when the Constitution of the Republic became the ...
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... Republic , in the spring and early summer of that year , we will begin our HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR . VIEW OF THE CITY OF CHARLESTON , IN 1860 . The two chief political parties into which the voters of the country were divided in 1860 ...
... Republic , in the spring and early summer of that year , we will begin our HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR . VIEW OF THE CITY OF CHARLESTON , IN 1860 . The two chief political parties into which the voters of the country were divided in 1860 ...
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... Republic . * * 1860 . The delegates , almost six hundred in number , and representing thirty - two States , assembled on the 23d of April in the great hall of the South Carolina Institute , ' on Meeting Street , in which three thousand ...
... Republic . * * 1860 . The delegates , almost six hundred in number , and representing thirty - two States , assembled on the 23d of April in the great hall of the South Carolina Institute , ' on Meeting Street , in which three thousand ...
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