The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates : Comprising a Full and Authentic Account of the Rise and Progress of the Late Southern Confederacy--the Campaigns, Battles, Incidents, and Adventures of the Most Gigantic Struggle of the World's HistoryThis book recounts the Civil War as a battle between "two nations of opposite civilizations" and that slavery enriched the South. |
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... heavy sledge - hammers , attempted to batter down the doors , but failed . They then took hold of a ladder some forty feet long , and , advancing on a run , brought it with tremendous effect upon the door . At the second blow it gave ...
... heavy sledge - hammers , attempted to batter down the doors , but failed . They then took hold of a ladder some forty feet long , and , advancing on a run , brought it with tremendous effect upon the door . At the second blow it gave ...
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... heavy force of soldiers , had sailed for the Southern coast ! ' THE REDUCTION OF FORT SUMTER . On the 3d of March President Davis had commissioned P. G. T. Beau- regard , then Colonel of Engineers in the Confederate service , Brigadier ...
... heavy force of soldiers , had sailed for the Southern coast ! ' THE REDUCTION OF FORT SUMTER . On the 3d of March President Davis had commissioned P. G. T. Beau- regard , then Colonel of Engineers in the Confederate service , Brigadier ...
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... heavy beams and sand - bags , and containing three eight - inch mortars ; next the " iron battery , " covered over with railroad bars , and having thick iron plates to close the em- brasures after the guns were fired . Nearest to Sumter ...
... heavy beams and sand - bags , and containing three eight - inch mortars ; next the " iron battery , " covered over with railroad bars , and having thick iron plates to close the em- brasures after the guns were fired . Nearest to Sumter ...
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... heavy guns were heard , and the smoke and shells from the batteries which had just opened fire on Sumter were distinctly visible . I immediately stood out to inform Capt . Rowan , of the Pawnee , but met him coming in . He hailed me and ...
... heavy guns were heard , and the smoke and shells from the batteries which had just opened fire on Sumter were distinctly visible . I immediately stood out to inform Capt . Rowan , of the Pawnee , but met him coming in . He hailed me and ...
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... heavy showers of rain poured down for hours , and when the clouds broke , the sun appeared and filled the air with heat . Through the laurel thickets , clambering up ravines , slipping from stones dislodged and earth moistened by the ...
... heavy showers of rain poured down for hours , and when the clouds broke , the sun appeared and filled the air with heat . Through the laurel thickets , clambering up ravines , slipping from stones dislodged and earth moistened by the ...
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A. P. Hill advance arms army arrest artillery assault attack bank batteries battle Beauregard Bragg brigade campaign captured Carolina cavalry Charleston column command commenced Confederacy Confederate forces Congress Constitution contest corps crossed D. H. Hill declared defence division early enemy enemy's evacuation Federal field fire flank fleet Fort Sumter Fort Wagner Fredericksburg front garrison Government Grant gunboats guns held Hill hundred infantry Jackson James River Johnston Kentucky Lee's Lincoln Longstreet loss Manassas McClellan ment miles military Mississippi Missouri morning moved movement night North Northern officers operations Orleans party pieces of artillery political position Potomac President Davis prisoners railroad rear regiments reinforcements retreat Richmond river road Shenandoah Valley Sherman side slavery soldiers South South Carolina Southern success Sumter superiour surrender Tennessee thousand tion troops Union United Valley vessels Vicksburg victory Virginia Washington whole wounded
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Page 359 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons,...
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Page 102 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother-land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time.
Page 217 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 358 - What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated ? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet!
Page 372 - It is with heartfelt satisfaction, that the Commanding General announces to the army, that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences, and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him.
Page 65 - March 6, 1820,) which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories — as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise Measures — is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their...
Page 115 - Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth...
Page 359 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...