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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... soldiers ; flags ; banners ; badges ; and a great variety of other objects whereby the eye may be in- structed concerning the materials used in the conflict . The engravings , whilst they embellish the book , have been in- troduced for ...
... soldiers ; flags ; banners ; badges ; and a great variety of other objects whereby the eye may be in- structed concerning the materials used in the conflict . The engravings , whilst they embellish the book , have been in- troduced for ...
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... is in its aristocracy . The masses are molded into soldiers and artisans by intellect , just as matter and the elements of nature are made into telegraphs and steam - engines . The poor , 40 HOW THE PEOPLE WERE DECEIVED . 1 social scale.
... is in its aristocracy . The masses are molded into soldiers and artisans by intellect , just as matter and the elements of nature are made into telegraphs and steam - engines . The poor , 40 HOW THE PEOPLE WERE DECEIVED . 1 social scale.
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... soldiers and sailors were drawn from the North ; and that two- thirds of the clerks in the Departments at Washington had been taken from the Slave - labor States , while they had only about one - third of the white population . During ...
... soldiers and sailors were drawn from the North ; and that two- thirds of the clerks in the Departments at Washington had been taken from the Slave - labor States , while they had only about one - third of the white population . During ...
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... soldiers should expiate the outrage on State Sovereignty . " These were brave words in the absence of 1804 . all danger . When that danger was nigh - when " Federal sol- * November , diers " under Sherman , just four years later ...
... soldiers should expiate the outrage on State Sovereignty . " These were brave words in the absence of 1804 . all danger . When that danger was nigh - when " Federal sol- * November , diers " under Sherman , just four years later ...
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... soldier was Major - General John Ellis Wool , then . commander of the Eastern Department , which included the whole . country eastward of the Mississippi River . He wrote to the venerable Gen- eral Lewis Cass ( also his companion - in ...
... soldier was Major - General John Ellis Wool , then . commander of the Eastern Department , which included the whole . country eastward of the Mississippi River . He wrote to the venerable Gen- eral Lewis Cass ( also his companion - in ...
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