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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... persons might be comfortably seated . The doors were opened at noon . The day was very warm . A refreshing shower had laid the dust at eleven o'clock , and purified the air . The delegates rapid- ly assembled . Favored spectators of ...
... persons might be comfortably seated . The doors were opened at noon . The day was very warm . A refreshing shower had laid the dust at eleven o'clock , and purified the air . The delegates rapid- ly assembled . Favored spectators of ...
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... persons . Wigwam , on the 16th day A rustic seat , made of a of May . Not more than one- huge knot of a tree , was third of the vast gathering prepared for the use of the of people could enter the President of the Conven- building ...
... persons . Wigwam , on the 16th day A rustic seat , made of a of May . Not more than one- huge knot of a tree , was third of the vast gathering prepared for the use of the of people could enter the President of the Conven- building ...
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... persons in the Free - labor States who really believed that there were men mad enough and wicked enough to raise the arm of resistance to the authority of the Supreme Government , founded on the National Constitu- tion . But the ...
... persons in the Free - labor States who really believed that there were men mad enough and wicked enough to raise the arm of resistance to the authority of the Supreme Government , founded on the National Constitu- tion . But the ...
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... persons in perpetual slavery ; you are so , in every domestic quality ; so in every habit of your lives , modes of living , and action . You neither work with your hands , head , nor any machinery , but live and have your being , .not ...
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