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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... Resolution , 234 . CHAPTER X. PEACE MOVEMENTS.- -CONVENTION OF CONSPIRATORS AT MONTGOMERY . Assembling of the Peace Convention at Washington City , 235. - Sincerity of the Virginia Politicians suspected -Instructions to Massachusetts ...
... Resolution , 234 . CHAPTER X. PEACE MOVEMENTS.- -CONVENTION OF CONSPIRATORS AT MONTGOMERY . Assembling of the Peace Convention at Washington City , 235. - Sincerity of the Virginia Politicians suspected -Instructions to Massachusetts ...
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... Resolution , 573 .-- The Army and the People- " Forward to Richmond ! " 574 - Benevolent Organizations , 575. - Noble Work of a Woman - Benevolent Women in Philadelphia , 576 - Philadelphia Refreshment Saloons , 577. - Firemen's ...
... Resolution , 573 .-- The Army and the People- " Forward to Richmond ! " 574 - Benevolent Organizations , 575. - Noble Work of a Woman - Benevolent Women in Philadelphia , 576 - Philadelphia Refreshment Saloons , 577. - Firemen's ...
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... Resolutions , composed of one delegate from each State , had been appointed without much delay . It was the business ... resolution , they had deter- mined to prevent the nomination of Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois ( an able statesman ...
... Resolutions , composed of one delegate from each State , had been appointed without much delay . It was the business ... resolution , they had deter- mined to prevent the nomination of Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois ( an able statesman ...
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... Resolutions sitting in Masonic Hall , on that warm April evening in 1860 , proposed as a platform for the Convention and the party the one constructed at Cincinnati four years before , without addition or alteration . He offered a ...
... Resolutions sitting in Masonic Hall , on that warm April evening in 1860 , proposed as a platform for the Convention and the party the one constructed at Cincinnati four years before , without addition or alteration . He offered a ...
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... resolution , a willingness to abide by any decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on questions of constitutional law . They offered a word for conciliation by denouncing , in another resolution , the acts of certain State ...
... resolution , a willingness to abide by any decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on questions of constitutional law . They offered a word for conciliation by denouncing , in another resolution , the acts of certain State ...
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