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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... already agreed to the rendezvous at Raleigh , and others will -- this in your most private ear . He says further , that he had officially requested you to exchange with Virginia , on fuir terms of difference , percussion for flint ...
... already agreed to the rendezvous at Raleigh , and others will -- this in your most private ear . He says further , that he had officially requested you to exchange with Virginia , on fuir terms of difference , percussion for flint ...
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... already paid for . The money to be received , on its delivery , was for the next year's crop , which would never be delivered . Here was a proposition for a scheme to swindle Northern men to the amount of many millions of dollars . 46 ...
... already paid for . The money to be received , on its delivery , was for the next year's crop , which would never be delivered . Here was a proposition for a scheme to swindle Northern men to the amount of many millions of dollars . 46 ...
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... already the question of Emancipation , by this re - examination and exposition of the false theories of religion , philanthropy , and political economy , which embarrassed the fathers in their day . At the North , and in Europe , they ...
... already the question of Emancipation , by this re - examination and exposition of the false theories of religion , philanthropy , and political economy , which embarrassed the fathers in their day . At the North , and in Europe , they ...
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... already adopted , and which was carried out a month later . What then should be done ? It was clearly the duty of the President to fill the offices with other men . " But , " he said , " we can easily conceive how it might become ...
... already adopted , and which was carried out a month later . What then should be done ? It was clearly the duty of the President to fill the offices with other men . " But , " he said , " we can easily conceive how it might become ...
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... already left the Union . It seems she is neither to be conciliated nor com- forted . I command the Eastern Depart- ment , which includes South Carolina , Georgia , Alabama , and Mississippi . You know me well . I have ever been a firm ...
... already left the Union . It seems she is neither to be conciliated nor com- forted . I command the Eastern Depart- ment , which includes South Carolina , Georgia , Alabama , and Mississippi . You know me well . I have ever been a firm ...
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