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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... known , and its several events were so well comprehended , that it was not a difficult task to 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 ...
... known , and its several events were so well comprehended , that it was not a difficult task to 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 ...
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... a Presbyterian Church , and known as that of Dr. Plummer's . * Halstead's History of the National Political Conventions in 1860 , page 155 , 26 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION IN BALTIMORE . self . Mr. Cushing. PORTRAIT OF JACOB THOMPSON.
... a Presbyterian Church , and known as that of Dr. Plummer's . * Halstead's History of the National Political Conventions in 1860 , page 155 , 26 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION IN BALTIMORE . self . Mr. Cushing. PORTRAIT OF JACOB THOMPSON.
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... known as the American , or Know - nothing party . They assembled in the First Presbyterian Meeting - house ( known as the Two - steeple Church ) , on Fayette Street , between Calvert and North Streets , which has since been demolished ...
... known as the American , or Know - nothing party . They assembled in the First Presbyterian Meeting - house ( known as the Two - steeple Church ) , on Fayette Street , between Calvert and North Streets , which has since been demolished ...
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... 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 , " and sent a boy with it to the nominee . Mr. Lincoln read it ...
... 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 , " and sent a boy with it to the nominee . Mr. Lincoln read it ...
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... known by them , and known to be thoroughly corrupt . They , like a certain school of ancient philosophers , had two sets of principles or doctrines - one for outsiders , the other for themselves ; the one was ' Democratic principles ...
... known by them , and known to be thoroughly corrupt . They , like a certain school of ancient philosophers , had two sets of principles or doctrines - one for outsiders , the other for themselves ; the one was ' Democratic principles ...
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