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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... present was finished . They had accomplished the positive disruption of the Demo- cratic party , which , as a Southern historian of the war says , had become " demoralized " on r the Slavery question , " and were " unreliable and rot ...
... present was finished . They had accomplished the positive disruption of the Demo- cratic party , which , as a Southern historian of the war says , had become " demoralized " on r the Slavery question , " and were " unreliable and rot ...
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... present it- 1 These delegates appear to have been representatives of an association of some kind in the city of New York , who sympathized with the Secessionists . They exhibited , as credentials , a certificate of the Trustees of the ...
... present it- 1 These delegates appear to have been representatives of an association of some kind in the city of New York , who sympathized with the Secessionists . They exhibited , as credentials , a certificate of the Trustees of the ...
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... and defection . It has formed empires , in the spirit of Freedom and Liberty , and has given birth to declarations and achievements which are the wonder of the present , and will INTENDED FATE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE . 39 The "
... and defection . It has formed empires , in the spirit of Freedom and Liberty , and has given birth to declarations and achievements which are the wonder of the present , and will INTENDED FATE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE . 39 The "
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... present Union , and a Southern Confederacy . " - " Rather than submit one moment to Black Re- publican rule , " Wise wrote to an old friend of his father , in the North , " I would fight to the last drop of blood to resist its fanatical ...
... present Union , and a Southern Confederacy . " - " Rather than submit one moment to Black Re- publican rule , " Wise wrote to an old friend of his father , in the North , " I would fight to the last drop of blood to resist its fanatical ...
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... present in Milledgeville , at the meeting of the State Legislature , as there will be there an out- side gathering of the very ablest men of that State . “ And the next point , that you should , at the earliest possible day of the ...
... present in Milledgeville , at the meeting of the State Legislature , as there will be there an out- side gathering of the very ablest men of that State . “ And the next point , that you should , at the earliest possible day of the ...
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