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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... five o'clock in the afternoon ; and then and there the electric spark , which kindled the prepared combustibles of civil war into a quick and devouring flame , was elicited by the attrition of radically opposing ideas . The subject of ...
... five o'clock in the afternoon ; and then and there the electric spark , which kindled the prepared combustibles of civil war into a quick and devouring flame , was elicited by the attrition of radically opposing ideas . The subject of ...
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... five , and placing the whole military force of the Common- wealth " in a position to be used at the shortest notice , and with the great- est efficiency . " He also recommended the immediate acceptance of ten thousand volunteers , to be ...
... five , and placing the whole military force of the Common- wealth " in a position to be used at the shortest notice , and with the great- est efficiency . " He also recommended the immediate acceptance of ten thousand volunteers , to be ...
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... five cents an acre ) , one hundred and eighty - eight acres of land , and deeded it , in small parcels , to four thousand eight hundred and eight of the most degraded population of New Orleans . They went to bis district ( Plaquemino ) ...
... five cents an acre ) , one hundred and eighty - eight acres of land , and deeded it , in small parcels , to four thousand eight hundred and eight of the most degraded population of New Orleans . They went to bis district ( Plaquemino ) ...
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... five hundred thousand dollars for military purposes . They listened to a commis- sioner from Mississippi ( Wirt Adams ) , but refused to authorize the Governor to appoint like agents to visit the Slave - labor States . They gave him ...
... five hundred thousand dollars for military purposes . They listened to a commis- sioner from Mississippi ( Wirt Adams ) , but refused to authorize the Governor to appoint like agents to visit the Slave - labor States . They gave him ...
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... five of the Southern States , at least , will have declared their independence .... Although there is a clog in the way of the lone - star State of Texas , in the person of her Governor ( Houston ) , who will not consent to call her ...
... five of the Southern States , at least , will have declared their independence .... Although there is a clog in the way of the lone - star State of Texas , in the person of her Governor ( Houston ) , who will not consent to call her ...
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