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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... give to each act and scene its relative position and due promi- nence , while compressing the whole narrative into a space so small as to make the chronicle accessible to the great body of my coun- trymen . I have endeavored to give a ...
... give to each act and scene its relative position and due promi- nence , while compressing the whole narrative into a space so small as to make the chronicle accessible to the great body of my coun- trymen . I have endeavored to give a ...
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... give license for the secession The States not represented were California , Florida , Iowa , Louisiana , Michigan , New Hampshire , Rhode Island , Oregon , South Carolinas , and Wisconsin - ten in all , 2 30 NOMINATION OF JOHN BELL ...
... give license for the secession The States not represented were California , Florida , Iowa , Louisiana , Michigan , New Hampshire , Rhode Island , Oregon , South Carolinas , and Wisconsin - ten in all , 2 30 NOMINATION OF JOHN BELL ...
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... 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 by perversions ...
... 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 by perversions ...
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... give what is called an extra - judicial opinion . He decided that a freed negro slave , or a descendant of a slave , could not become a citizen of the Republic . He asserted , in that connection , that the language of the Declaration of ...
... give what is called an extra - judicial opinion . He decided that a freed negro slave , or a descendant of a slave , could not become a citizen of the Republic . He asserted , in that connection , that the language of the Declaration of ...
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... give courage to each other ; and at the proper moment , by one organized , concerted action , precipitate the Cotton States into revolution . " WILLIAM L YANCEY . This advice was instantly followed when the election of Mr. Lincoln was ...
... give courage to each other ; and at the proper moment , by one organized , concerted action , precipitate the Cotton States into revolution . " WILLIAM L YANCEY . This advice was instantly followed when the election of Mr. Lincoln was ...
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