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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... laws of Divine Equity , to establish an Empire upon a basis of injustice and a denial of the dearest rights of man . That conspiracy budded when the Constitution of the Republic became the supreme law of the land , ' and , under the ...
... laws of Divine Equity , to establish an Empire upon a basis of injustice and a denial of the dearest rights of man . That conspiracy budded when the Constitution of the Republic became the supreme law of the land , ' and , under the ...
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... law . They offered a word for conciliation by denouncing , in another resolution , the acts of certain State Legislatures known as Personal Liberty Laws , as " hostile in character , subversive of the Constitution , and revolutionary in ...
... law . They offered a word for conciliation by denouncing , in another resolution , the acts of certain State Legislatures known as Personal Liberty Laws , as " hostile in character , subversive of the Constitution , and revolutionary in ...
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... laws of my country - is approvingly advocated . " On the retirement of Mr. Cushing , Governor David Tod , of Ohio , one of the vice - presidents , took the chair , and the Convention proceeded to ballot for a Presidential candidate . A ...
... laws of my country - is approvingly advocated . " On the retirement of Mr. Cushing , Governor David Tod , of Ohio , one of the vice - presidents , took the chair , and the Convention proceeded to ballot for a Presidential candidate . A ...
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... Laws of Connecticut ; and for the third , the Constitution of the United States- " the Constitution as it is , and the Union under it , now and forever . " The last sentence touched a sympathetic chord in the Convention , of marvelous ...
... Laws of Connecticut ; and for the third , the Constitution of the United States- " the Constitution as it is , and the Union under it , now and forever . " The last sentence touched a sympathetic chord in the Convention , of marvelous ...
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... laws and other governmental measures , and by immigration from foreign lands , had elected a sectional President for the purpose of carrying out a long - cherished scheme of ambition , namely , the political and social subjuga- tion of ...
... laws and other governmental measures , and by immigration from foreign lands , had elected a sectional President for the purpose of carrying out a long - cherished scheme of ambition , namely , the political and social subjuga- tion of ...
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