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 History. Drawn from Official Sources, and Approved by the Most Distinguished Confederate Leaders |
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... VIRGINIA , EDITOR OF THE RICHMOND " EXAMINER " DURING THE WAR . WITH NUMEROUS SPLENDID STEEL PORTRAITS . SOLD ONLY BY SUBSCRIPTION . New York : E. B. TREAT & CO . , PUBLISHERS . BALTIMORE , MD .: L. T. PALMER & CO . ST . LOUIS , Mo ...
... VIRGINIA , EDITOR OF THE RICHMOND " EXAMINER " DURING THE WAR . WITH NUMEROUS SPLENDID STEEL PORTRAITS . SOLD ONLY BY SUBSCRIPTION . New York : E. B. TREAT & CO . , PUBLISHERS . BALTIMORE , MD .: L. T. PALMER & CO . ST . LOUIS , Mo ...
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... Virginia's pros- perity . Her early land system . - The Chesapeake . - Alexandria . - George Wash- ington's great commercial project . - Two pictures of Virginia : 1789 and 1829.— An example of the decline of the South in material ...
... Virginia's pros- perity . Her early land system . - The Chesapeake . - Alexandria . - George Wash- ington's great commercial project . - Two pictures of Virginia : 1789 and 1829.— An example of the decline of the South in material ...
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... Virginia Convention . - How the Secession party gained in it . The record of Virginia on the subject of State Rights . - Presi- dent Buchanan on the Secession question . - His weak character and undecided policy . How over - censured by ...
... Virginia Convention . - How the Secession party gained in it . The record of Virginia on the subject of State Rights . - Presi- dent Buchanan on the Secession question . - His weak character and undecided policy . How over - censured by ...
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... Virginia Commissioners . - Secession of Virginia . Discontent in the Western counties . - Second secessionary movement of the Southern States . - Violent acts of the Washington Administration . - Prepara- tions of the Confederate ...
... Virginia Commissioners . - Secession of Virginia . Discontent in the Western counties . - Second secessionary movement of the Southern States . - Violent acts of the Washington Administration . - Prepara- tions of the Confederate ...
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... Virginia the great theatre of the war . - The Grand Army of the North . - Consultation of President Davis and Beauregard and Lee.- Beauregard's line of defence in Northern Virginia . - Sketch of General Beauregard . -His person and ...
... Virginia the great theatre of the war . - The Grand Army of the North . - Consultation of President Davis and Beauregard and Lee.- Beauregard's line of defence in Northern Virginia . - Sketch of General Beauregard . -His person and ...
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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 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 sent 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 635 - Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye ; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Page 700 - In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army...
Page 104 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 468 - Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert...
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. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weight would be lifted from the shoulders of all men.
Page 506 - ... 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 42 - ... that to this compact each state acceded, as a state, and is an integral party; its co-states forming as to itself the other party : that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself...
Page 357 - 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...
Page 77 - That the Government of a Territory organized by an act of Congress is provisional and temporary, and during its existence all citizens of the United States have an equal right to settle with their property in the Territory, without their rights, either of person or property, being destroyed or impaired by Congressional or Territorial legislation.
Page 42 - ... government created by this compact, was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself, since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.