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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... in cyclopedia form , and making an important Biographical Dic- tionary . I am profoundly grateful to my personal friends , and to my 6 PREFACE . countrymen of every degree , from the CONTENTS YOL ILLUSTRATIONS VOL INITIAL LETTER.
... in cyclopedia form , and making an important Biographical Dic- tionary . I am profoundly grateful to my personal friends , and to my 6 PREFACE . countrymen of every degree , from the CONTENTS YOL ILLUSTRATIONS VOL INITIAL LETTER.
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... friends had reared sixty years before . On the morning of the second day of the session , Caleb Cushing , of Massachusetts , was chosen permanent President of the Convention , and a vice - president and secretary for each State were ...
... friends had reared sixty years before . On the morning of the second day of the session , Caleb Cushing , of Massachusetts , was chosen permanent President of the Convention , and a vice - president and secretary for each State were ...
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... friends of the opposing candidates of that party ( STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS and JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE ) went into the canvass with great bitterness of feeling , such as family quarrels usually exhibit . • May 9 , 1860 . Six days after the ...
... friends of the opposing candidates of that party ( STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS and JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE ) went into the canvass with great bitterness of feeling , such as family quarrels usually exhibit . • May 9 , 1860 . Six days after the ...
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... friends when the third balloting occurred . The result was known at Springfield a few minutes after the voting was finished . The superintendent of the telegraph there wrote on a scrap of paper , " Mr. Lincoln , you are nominated ...
... friends when the third balloting occurred . The result was known at Springfield a few minutes after the voting was finished . The superintendent of the telegraph there wrote on a scrap of paper , " Mr. Lincoln , you are nominated ...
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... friends , that the President elect would be a usurper when in office , because he had not received a majority of the aggregate vote of the people ; that he would be a sectional ruler , and , of necessity , a tyrant ; and that his ...
... friends , that the President elect would be a usurper when in office , because he had not received a majority of the aggregate vote of the people ; that he would be a sectional ruler , and , of necessity , a tyrant ; and that his ...
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