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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... Possession of Fort Sumter - Military Preparations to that End , 310 . -Floating Battery at Charleston , 312. - Trying Position of Major Anderson - Anderson expected to leave Fort Sumter - His Appeals to his Government , 314 ...
... Possession of Fort Sumter - Military Preparations to that End , 310 . -Floating Battery at Charleston , 312. - Trying Position of Major Anderson - Anderson expected to leave Fort Sumter - His Appeals to his Government , 314 ...
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... possessed of wide intellectual culture , and was a sagacious observer of men . He was then sixty years of 1 This building , in which the famous South Carolina Ordinance of Secession was signed ( it was adopted in St. Andrew's Hall ) ...
... possessed of wide intellectual culture , and was a sagacious observer of men . He was then sixty years of 1 This building , in which the famous South Carolina Ordinance of Secession was signed ( it was adopted in St. Andrew's Hall ) ...
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... possession of the National Government , and secondly against that Government itself , which resulted in a bloody civil war , and the utter destruction of the vast and cherished interest , for the conservation of which they cast down the ...
... possession of the National Government , and secondly against that Government itself , which resulted in a bloody civil war , and the utter destruction of the vast and cherished interest , for the conservation of which they cast down the ...
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... possession of the Capitol , and pre- vented the inauguration of the President elect . Frémont's defeat postponed overt acts of treason by the con- spirators . - The American Conflict : by Horace Greeley , i . 329. Senator Mason ...
... possession of the Capitol , and pre- vented the inauguration of the President elect . Frémont's defeat postponed overt acts of treason by the con- spirators . - The American Conflict : by Horace Greeley , i . 329. Senator Mason ...
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... possession . W. H. T. 1 Ten years before , this man , then engaged in treasonable schemes , dating his letter at Washington , " House of Representatives , September 2 , 1850 , " wrote to General Quitman , then Governor of Mississippi ...
... possession . W. H. T. 1 Ten years before , this man , then engaged in treasonable schemes , dating his letter at Washington , " House of Representatives , September 2 , 1850 , " wrote to General Quitman , then Governor of Mississippi ...
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