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 Lates Southern Confederacy--the Campaigns, Battles, Incidents, and Adventures of the Most Gigantic Struggle of the World's History. Drawn from Official Sources, and Approved by the Most Distinguished Confederate Leaders |
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... Five Forks . - Misbehaviour of the Confederates . - Gen . Lee's reproach . - Bombard- ment of the Petersburg lines . - The assault . - The Confederates ' lines broken.- Defence of Fort Gregg . - A thrilling scene of self - devotion ...
... Five Forks . - Misbehaviour of the Confederates . - Gen . Lee's reproach . - Bombard- ment of the Petersburg lines . - The assault . - The Confederates ' lines broken.- Defence of Fort Gregg . - A thrilling scene of self - devotion ...
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... five fanatics , of whom ten where white men and the remaining twenty - five negroes of various shades of colour . John Brown , having thus prefaced his expedition into Virginia , collected a small company of insurgents , black and white ...
... five fanatics , of whom ten where white men and the remaining twenty - five negroes of various shades of colour . John Brown , having thus prefaced his expedition into Virginia , collected a small company of insurgents , black and white ...
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... five thousand men , at any time I wanted them . Help was promised me from Maryland , Kentucky , North and South Carolina , Virginia , and Canada . The blow was struck a little too soon . The passing of the train on Sunday night did the ...
... five thousand men , at any time I wanted them . Help was promised me from Maryland , Kentucky , North and South Carolina , Virginia , and Canada . The blow was struck a little too soon . The passing of the train on Sunday night did the ...
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... five hundred copies in the army of renegades who are meeting them in the contest ? It would scald and singe their polluted hands . We had every cause to be proud of our army . They are worthy of the Bible . How their names will glisten ...
... five hundred copies in the army of renegades who are meeting them in the contest ? It would scald and singe their polluted hands . We had every cause to be proud of our army . They are worthy of the Bible . How their names will glisten ...
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... five millions of dollars ; but the proposals amounted to eight millions , and not one of them was below par . It had appointed three commissioners to England , France , Russia , and Belgium , instructed to ask the recognition of the ...
... five millions of dollars ; but the proposals amounted to eight millions , and not one of them was below par . It had appointed three commissioners to England , France , Russia , and Belgium , instructed to ask the recognition of 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 enemy enemy's evacuation Federal fire flank fleet Fort Sumter Fort Wagner Fredericksburg front garrison Government Grant gunboats guns held Hill hundred infantry Jackson James River Jefferson Davis Johnston Kentucky Lee's Lincoln Longstreet loss Manassas McClellan ment miles military Mississippi Missouri moved movement negro 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 wounded
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Page 115 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 628 - Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was an hungered and ye gave me no meat ; I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink ; I was a stranger and ye took me not in ; naked and ye clothed me not ; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 35 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 353 - ... 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...
Page 115 - I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth will probably be to repossess the forts, places, and property which have been seized from the Union ; and in every event the utmost care will be observed, consistently with the objects aforesaid, to avoid any devastation, any destruction of or interference with property, or any disturbance of peaceful citizens of any part of the country.
Page 83 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Page 500 - ... to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy and his resources, until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left to him but an equal submission with the loyal section of our common country to the constitution and laws of the land.
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 121 - Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern brethren.
Page 109 - Carolina that he might expect an attempt would be made to provision the fort ; and that, if the attempt should not be resisted, there would be no effort to throw in men, arms, or ammunition, without further notice, or in case of an attack upon the fort.