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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... preparation of a scientific and critical history of the war to military experts , who are more competent for the task ... prepared un- der my direct supervision ; and great pains have been taken to make them correct delineations of the ...
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... prepared combustibles of civil war into a quick and devouring flame , was elicited by the attrition of radically opposing ideas . The subject of Slavery , as we have observed , was the troubling spirit of the Convention . It appeared in ...
... prepared combustibles of civil war into a quick and devouring flame , was elicited by the attrition of radically opposing ideas . The subject of Slavery , as we have observed , was the troubling spirit of the Convention . It appeared in ...
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... preparing to " assail the Union it ordained and established " —a proper subject for his own denunciations . 2 Mr. Breckinridge was then Vice - president of the United States under President Buchanan , and subse- quent events show that ...
... preparing to " assail the Union it ordained and established " —a proper subject for his own denunciations . 2 Mr. Breckinridge was then Vice - president of the United States under President Buchanan , and subse- quent events show that ...
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