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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... afterward , Fitzpatrick declined the nomi- nation , when the National Com- mittee substituted Herschel V. Johnson , of Georgia . On the evening of the 23d , the Con- vention made a final adjourn- ment . བ་ དེ་ ན་ གནས་པ་ ན་ ་ ས་ ན་ ར་ ག ...
... afterward , Fitzpatrick declined the nomi- nation , when the National Com- mittee substituted Herschel V. Johnson , of Georgia . On the evening of the 23d , the Con- vention made a final adjourn- ment . བ་ དེ་ ན་ གནས་པ་ ན་ ་ ས་ ན་ ར་ ག ...
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... afterward boasted that , had Frémont been elected , he should have marched , at the head of twenty thousand men , to Washington , taken possession of the Capitol , and pre- vented the inauguration of the President elect . Frémont's ...
... afterward boasted that , had Frémont been elected , he should have marched , at the head of twenty thousand men , to Washington , taken possession of the Capitol , and pre- vented the inauguration of the President elect . Frémont's ...
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... afterward , Cobb resigned his office , ' hastened to Georgia , and afterward took up arms against his country . 1860 . HOWELL COBB . 2 1 In his letter to Mr. Buchanan , resigning his office , Mr. Cobb frankly informed him that duty to ...
... afterward , Cobb resigned his office , ' hastened to Georgia , and afterward took up arms against his country . 1860 . HOWELL COBB . 2 1 In his letter to Mr. Buchanan , resigning his office , Mr. Cobb frankly informed him that duty to ...
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... afterward took up arms against the Republic , plotted the blackest crimes against the people of his country while finding an asylum in Canada , and was finally charged with complicity in the murder of President Lincoln . Floyd , in ...
... afterward took up arms against the Republic , plotted the blackest crimes against the people of his country while finding an asylum in Canada , and was finally charged with complicity in the murder of President Lincoln . Floyd , in ...
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... afterward made clear - that months before Mr. Lincoln's election , emissaries of the con- spirators had been sent to Europe , to prepare the way for aid and recog- nition of the contemplated Southern Confederacy by foreign powers . " If ...
... afterward made clear - that months before Mr. Lincoln's election , emissaries of the con- spirators had been sent to Europe , to prepare the way for aid and recog- nition of the contemplated Southern Confederacy by foreign powers . " If ...
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