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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... body of my coun- trymen . I have endeavored to give a popular narrative of the struggle without much criticism , and as free from technical terms and tediousness of detail as possible , leaving the preparation of a scientific and ...
... body of my coun- trymen . I have endeavored to give a popular narrative of the struggle without much criticism , and as free from technical terms and tediousness of detail as possible , leaving the preparation of a scientific and ...
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... body of the delegates , and was a symphony to their action . CALEB CUSHING . " 591 At the close of the second day the Convention was in fair working order . Some contests for seats were undecided , there being two sets of dele- ates ...
... body of the delegates , and was a symphony to their action . CALEB CUSHING . " 591 At the close of the second day the Convention was in fair working order . Some contests for seats were undecided , there being two sets of dele- ates ...
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... body proceeded to ballot for a can- didate for the Presidency of the Republic . At least two hundred votes were necessary to a choice . Stephen A. Douglas led off with at least fifty less . than the requisite number . There was very ...
... body proceeded to ballot for a can- didate for the Presidency of the Republic . At least two hundred votes were necessary to a choice . Stephen A. Douglas led off with at least fifty less . than the requisite number . There was very ...
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... body , was the first to present it- 1 These delegates appear to have been representatives of an association of some kind in the city of New York , who sympathized with the Secessionists . They exhibited , as credentials , a certificate ...
... body , was the first to present it- 1 These delegates appear to have been representatives of an association of some kind in the city of New York , who sympathized with the Secessionists . They exhibited , as credentials , a certificate ...
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... body then assembled formed the true National Democratic Convention , composed , as it was , of delegates duly accredited thereto from more than twenty States . The Convention then proceeded to business with the greatest harmony . They ...
... body then assembled formed the true National Democratic Convention , composed , as it was , of delegates duly accredited thereto from more than twenty States . The Convention then proceeded to business with the greatest harmony . They ...
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