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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... authority , inscribed with the words , " Don't give up the ship ! " he called the Convention to order , and invited the delegates to business . A committee on resolutions , composed of one delegate from each State represented , was ...
... authority , inscribed with the words , " Don't give up the ship ! " he called the Convention to order , and invited the delegates to business . A committee on resolutions , composed of one delegate from each State represented , was ...
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... authority to give legal existence to Slavery in any Ter- ritory of the United States ; and that the reopening of the African Slave - trade , then recently commenced in the Southern States , under the cover of our national flag , aided ...
... authority to give legal existence to Slavery in any Ter- ritory of the United States ; and that the reopening of the African Slave - trade , then recently commenced in the Southern States , under the cover of our national flag , aided ...
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... authority of municipal law . Of this party , Abraham Lincoln was the standard - bearer . 2. The wing of the Democratic party led by John C. Breckinridge , who declared that no power existed that might lawfully control Slavery in the ...
... authority of municipal law . Of this party , Abraham Lincoln was the standard - bearer . 2. The wing of the Democratic party led by John C. Breckinridge , who declared that no power existed that might lawfully control Slavery in the ...
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... authority of the Supreme Government , founded on the National Constitu- tion . But the election of Mr. Lincoln , which was the result of the great poli- tical conflict in the summer and autumn of 1860 , soon revealed the exist- ence of ...
... authority of the Supreme Government , founded on the National Constitu- tion . But the election of Mr. Lincoln , which was the result of the great poli- tical conflict in the summer and autumn of 1860 , soon revealed the exist- ence of ...
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... authority , and he hoped it would be filially received by them as the children of Christ , and laid up in their heart of hearts . " For a complete history of the change in the sentiments of Christians of all denominations in the Slave ...
... authority , and he hoped it would be filially received by them as the children of Christ , and laid up in their heart of hearts . " For a complete history of the change in the sentiments of Christians of all denominations in the Slave ...
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