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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... parties to the conflict ; also views and plans of battle - grounds ; head - quarters of officers ; weapons and ships of war ; forts ; arsenals ; medals of honor , and other gifts of gratitude ; costumes of soldiers ; flags ; banners ...
... parties to the conflict ; also views and plans of battle - grounds ; head - quarters of officers ; weapons and ships of war ; forts ; arsenals ; medals of honor , and other gifts of gratitude ; costumes of soldiers ; flags ; banners ...
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... Party , 590. - Beauregard re - enforced by Johnston , 591. - The forward Movement , 592. - The Battle of Bull's Run in the . Morning , 593 - Battle in the Afternoon , 598. - The Confederates re - enforced , 601. - Flight of the National ...
... Party , 590. - Beauregard re - enforced by Johnston , 591. - The forward Movement , 592. - The Battle of Bull's Run in the . Morning , 593 - Battle in the Afternoon , 598. - The Confederates re - enforced , 601. - Flight of the National ...
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... parties into which the voters of the country were divided in 1860 , were called , respectively , Democratic and ... party moved first . Its representatives were summoned to assemble in Charleston , a pleasant city of forty thousand ...
... parties into which the voters of the country were divided in 1860 , were called , respectively , Democratic and ... party moved first . Its representatives were summoned to assemble in Charleston , a pleasant city of forty thousand ...
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... Party , which he and his friends had reared sixty years before . On the morning of the second day of the session , Caleb Cushing , of Massachusetts , was chosen permanent President of the Convention , and a vice - president and ...
... Party , which he and his friends had reared sixty years before . On the morning of the second day of the session , Caleb Cushing , of Massachusetts , was chosen permanent President of the Convention , and a vice - president and ...
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... party to cile popular freedom with constituted order , " and to maintain " the sacred reserved rights of the Sovereign States . " He declared the Republicans to be those who were " laboring to overthrow the Con- stitution , " and ...
... party to cile popular freedom with constituted order , " and to maintain " the sacred reserved rights of the Sovereign States . " He declared the Republicans to be those who were " laboring to overthrow the Con- stitution , " and ...
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