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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 19
... hour , that the spirit of the Slave system , which had become the very Nemesis of the nation , was there , full fraught with mischievous intent . It was a spirit potential as Ariel in the creation of elemental strife . For several ...
... hour , that the spirit of the Slave system , which had become the very Nemesis of the nation , was there , full fraught with mischievous intent . It was a spirit potential as Ariel in the creation of elemental strife . For several ...
Page 22
... hour for that decision at length arrived . April , It was on the morning of the 30th . The Hall was densely crowded . A vote was first taken on Butler's resolution . It was rejected by a decisive majority . The minority report — the ...
... hour for that decision at length arrived . April , It was on the morning of the 30th . The Hall was densely crowded . A vote was first taken on Butler's resolution . It was rejected by a decisive majority . The minority report — the ...
Page 26
... hours on that first day of the session ; and in the evening there were two mass meetings of the Democracy in the streets of Baltimore , at which ve- hement speeches were heard for three hours , by tens of thousands of people , citizens ...
... hours on that first day of the session ; and in the evening there were two mass meetings of the Democracy in the streets of Baltimore , at which ve- hement speeches were heard for three hours , by tens of thousands of people , citizens ...
Page 43
... hour . " applauded , as hopeful words for his class , the declaration of Howell Cobb ( then President Buchanan's Secretary of the Treasury ) , at a public gather- ing in the city of New York , that , in the event of Mr. Lincoln's ...
... hour . " applauded , as hopeful words for his class , the declaration of Howell Cobb ( then President Buchanan's Secretary of the Treasury ) , at a public gather- ing in the city of New York , that , in the event of Mr. Lincoln's ...
Page 44
... hour that Georgia remains thereafter a member of the Union will be an hour of degradation , to be followed by cer- tain and speedy ruin . I entertain no doubt either of your right or duty to se- cede from the Union . Arouse , then , all ...
... hour that Georgia remains thereafter a member of the Union will be an hour of degradation , to be followed by cer- tain and speedy ruin . I entertain no doubt either of your right or duty to se- cede from the Union . Arouse , then , all ...
Contents
321 | |
325 | |
327 | |
333 | |
334 | |
335 | |
352 | |
361 | |
117 | |
124 | |
130 | |
136 | |
140 | |
161 | |
164 | |
168 | |
170 | |
177 | |
192 | |
198 | |
200 | |
207 | |
216 | |
228 | |
235 | |
258 | |
267 | |
275 | |
287 | |
300 | |
301 | |
310 | |
311 | |
365 | |
370 | |
379 | |
382 | |
386 | |
396 | |
407 | |
409 | |
421 | |
433 | |
454 | |
465 | |
473 | |
478 | |
483 | |
492 | |
511 | |
519 | |
522 | |
538 | |
561 | |
578 | |
584 | |
585 | |
592 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action afterward Alabama appointed April arms Army Arsenal assembled authority Baltimore battery Calhoun called Capital Captain Castle Pinckney citizens Colonel command Commissioners Committee Confederate Congress conspirators Constitution Convention Crittenden Compromise Davis December declared delegates disloyal duty election excitement Federal fire flag force Fort Moultrie Fort Pickens Fort Sumter forts Free-labor Fugitive Slave Law garrison Georgia Governor guns Harper's Ferry honor House hundred insurgents James January Jefferson Jefferson Davis John Kentucky Legislature letter Lieutenant Lincoln Louisiana loyal Major Anderson March Maryland ment military Mississippi Missouri Montgomery Moultrie National Government Navy Yard North officers Ohio Ordinance of Secession party patriotic peace Pickens politicians President re-enforcements rebellion regiment Republic resolution Richmond secede secessionists Secretary Secretary of War seized Senate sent session Slave-labor Slavery Slemmer soldiers South Carolina Southern Confederacy speech Sumter Texas thousand tion Toombs treason troops Union United Virginia vote Washington City Wigfall York