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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... in cyclopedia form , and making an important Biographical Dic- tionary . I am profoundly grateful to my personal friends , and to my 6 PREFACE . countrymen of every degree , from the CONTENTS YOL ILLUSTRATIONS VOL INITIAL LETTER.
... in cyclopedia form , and making an important Biographical Dic- tionary . I am profoundly grateful to my personal friends , and to my 6 PREFACE . countrymen of every degree , from the CONTENTS YOL ILLUSTRATIONS VOL INITIAL LETTER.
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... Letter to General Cass , 76 , -Resignation of Cass - Fast - Day proclaimed , 77. - Clingman's Treasonable Speech in the Senate , 78 - Crit- tenden's Rebuke - Hale's Defiance , and the Anger of the Conspirators , 79. - Iverson's ...
... Letter to General Cass , 76 , -Resignation of Cass - Fast - Day proclaimed , 77. - Clingman's Treasonable Speech in the Senate , 78 - Crit- tenden's Rebuke - Hale's Defiance , and the Anger of the Conspirators , 79. - Iverson's ...
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... Letter , 183. - Pelican Flag blessed , 184. - Secretary Dix's Order to shoot any one who should attempt to haul down the American Flag - Seizure of the Mint , 185 - State of Public Feeling in Texas , 186 - Knights of the Golden Circle ...
... Letter , 183. - Pelican Flag blessed , 184. - Secretary Dix's Order to shoot any one who should attempt to haul down the American Flag - Seizure of the Mint , 185 - State of Public Feeling in Texas , 186 - Knights of the Golden Circle ...
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... Letter to Mr. Seward - Professor Morse's Plan for Reconciliation , 245. - Meeting of Conspirators at Montgomery , 248. - Policy of South Carolinians- A Confederacy of " Seceded " States proposed , 250 , - Provisional Constitution ...
... Letter to Mr. Seward - Professor Morse's Plan for Reconciliation , 245. - Meeting of Conspirators at Montgomery , 248. - Policy of South Carolinians- A Confederacy of " Seceded " States proposed , 250 , - Provisional Constitution ...
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... Letter , 303. - Judge Campbell's Letter , 304. - Its Use and Effect , 385. - Secret History concerning the attempt to re - enforce and relieve the Garrison in Fort Sumter , 306 . CHAPTER XIII . THE SIEGE AND EVACUATION OF FORT SUMTER ...
... Letter , 303. - Judge Campbell's Letter , 304. - Its Use and Effect , 385. - Secret History concerning the attempt to re - enforce and relieve the Garrison in Fort Sumter , 306 . CHAPTER XIII . THE SIEGE AND EVACUATION OF FORT SUMTER ...
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