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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... attempt to haul down the American Flag - Seizure of the Mint , 185 - State of Public Feeling in Texas , 186 - Knights of the Golden Circle- Loyal Action of Governor Houston , 187. - Secession Convention in Texas - Committee of Safety ...
... attempt to haul down the American Flag - Seizure of the Mint , 185 - State of Public Feeling in Texas , 186 - Knights of the Golden Circle- Loyal Action of Governor Houston , 187. - Secession Convention in Texas - Committee of Safety ...
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... attempt to re - enforce and relieve the Garrison in Fort Sumter , 306 . CHAPTER XIII . THE SIEGE AND EVACUATION OF FORT SUMTER . Determination of South Carolinians to have Possession of Fort Sumter - Military Preparations to that End ...
... attempt to re - enforce and relieve the Garrison in Fort Sumter , 306 . CHAPTER XIII . THE SIEGE AND EVACUATION OF FORT SUMTER . Determination of South Carolinians to have Possession of Fort Sumter - Military Preparations to that End ...
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... 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 supreme law of the ...
... 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 supreme law of the ...
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... distinction who joined the enemies of his country in their attempt to overthrow the Constitution and destroy the nationality of the Republic . REPUBLICAN CONVENTION , 31 illustrious as one of the wonders. SECESSION COCKADE.
... distinction who joined the enemies of his country in their attempt to overthrow the Constitution and destroy the nationality of the Republic . REPUBLICAN CONVENTION , 31 illustrious as one of the wonders. SECESSION COCKADE.
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... attempt the dissolution of the Union by the process of secession , whenever the revelations of the Census or other causes should convince them that the domination of the Slave interest in the National Government had ceased forever - men ...
... attempt the dissolution of the Union by the process of secession , whenever the revelations of the Census or other causes should convince them that the domination of the Slave interest in the National Government had ceased forever - men ...
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