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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... hundred in number , and representing thirty - two States , assembled on the 23d of April in the great hall of the South Carolina Institute , ' on Meeting Street , in which three thousand persons might be comfortably seated . The doors ...
... hundred in number , and representing thirty - two States , assembled on the 23d of April in the great hall of the South Carolina Institute , ' on Meeting Street , in which three thousand persons might be comfortably seated . The doors ...
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... hundred and seventy - two against one hundred and twenty - seven ) , were amazed because of the bad faith and arrogant assumptions of their South- ern brethren . It was clearly seen that the latter were united , evidently by pre ...
... hundred and seventy - two against one hundred and twenty - seven ) , were amazed because of the bad faith and arrogant assumptions of their South- ern brethren . It was clearly seen that the latter were united , evidently by pre ...
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... hundred and ninety - four and a half votes cast , on the second ballot , he received one hundred and eighty- one and a half , when he was declared duly nominated for the Presidency . James Fitzpatrick , of Alabama , was nominated for ...
... hundred and ninety - four and a half votes cast , on the second ballot , he received one hundred and eighty- one and a half , when he was declared duly nominated for the Presidency . James Fitzpatrick , of Alabama , was nominated for ...
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... hundred and fifty - four votes were cast ; and on the second ballot , John Bell , of Tennessee , an eminent poli- tician , then past sixty - three years of age , was nominated for the Presidency . ' The renowned scholar , statesman ...
... hundred and fifty - four votes were cast ; and on the second ballot , John Bell , of Tennessee , an eminent poli- tician , then past sixty - three years of age , was nominated for the Presidency . ' The renowned scholar , statesman ...
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... hundred and three in number , and , when assembled in Electoral College , ' one hundred and eighty of them voted for Mr. Lincoln , giving him fifty - seven electoral votes more than all of his opponents received . Of the popular votes ...
... hundred and three in number , and , when assembled in Electoral College , ' one hundred and eighty of them voted for Mr. Lincoln , giving him fifty - seven electoral votes more than all of his opponents received . Of the popular votes ...
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