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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... duty , namely : to inspire mankind with a love of justice and a hatred of its opposite , and of every thing that impedes the onward and upward march of humanity . Taking it for granted that the reader , with the facts plainly set before ...
... duty , namely : to inspire mankind with a love of justice and a hatred of its opposite , and of every thing that impedes the onward and upward march of humanity . Taking it for granted that the reader , with the facts plainly set before ...
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... Duties , 561. - Organization of the House - The President's Message , 562. - Reports of the Cabinet Ministers , 564 ... Duty and Interest of Great Britain , 568. - The Queen's Proclamation of Neutrality , 569. - Attitude of Continental ...
... Duties , 561. - Organization of the House - The President's Message , 562. - Reports of the Cabinet Ministers , 564 ... Duty and Interest of Great Britain , 568. - The Queen's Proclamation of Neutrality , 569. - Attitude of Continental ...
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... duty of the National Government to protect it there . 3. The wing of the Democratic party led by Stephen A. Douglas , whose platform of principles assumed not to know positively whether slavery might or might not have lawful existence ...
... duty of the National Government to protect it there . 3. The wing of the Democratic party led by Stephen A. Douglas , whose platform of principles assumed not to know positively whether slavery might or might not have lawful existence ...
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... duty is plain of conserving and transmitting the system of Slavery , with the freest scope for its natural development and extension , " Again : “ Need I pause to show how this system is interwoven with our entire social fabric ? That ...
... duty is plain of conserving and transmitting the system of Slavery , with the freest scope for its natural development and extension , " Again : “ Need I pause to show how this system is interwoven with our entire social fabric ? That ...
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... duty to se- cede from the Union . Arouse , then , all your manhood for the great work before you , and be prepared , on that day , to announce and maintain your independ- ence of the Union , for you will never again have equality and ...
... duty to se- cede from the Union . Arouse , then , all your manhood for the great work before you , and be prepared , on that day , to announce and maintain your independ- ence of the Union , for you will never again have equality and ...
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