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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... give confidence to all the men of the State . If we do act , I really think this half the battle ; a man upon whose temper the State can rely , " I say nothing about a convention , as I understand , on all hands , that that is a fixed ...
... give confidence to all the men of the State . If we do act , I really think this half the battle ; a man upon whose temper the State can rely , " I say nothing about a convention , as I understand , on all hands , that that is a fixed ...
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... give full effect to them . The people now must choose whether they will be governed by enemies or govern themselves . For my- self , I would unfurl the Palmetto flag , fling it to the breeze , and , with the spirit of a brave man ...
... give full effect to them . The people now must choose whether they will be governed by enemies or govern themselves . For my- self , I would unfurl the Palmetto flag , fling it to the breeze , and , with the spirit of a brave man ...
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... give her to the God of storms , The lightning and the gale . ' 133 But these cautious men were overborne by the fiery zealots . One of these ( Mullins , from Marion ) , in his eagerness to hurry the State out of the Union , revealed not ...
... give her to the God of storms , The lightning and the gale . ' 133 But these cautious men were overborne by the fiery zealots . One of these ( Mullins , from Marion ) , in his eagerness to hurry the State out of the Union , revealed not ...
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... give the signal . Many influential men were co - workers with them . It was exceedingly difficult to seduce the people of that State from their affection for the Union . They succeeded , however , in producing a general ferment and ...
... give the signal . Many influential men were co - workers with them . It was exceedingly difficult to seduce the people of that State from their affection for the Union . They succeeded , however , in producing a general ferment and ...
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... give me the sword ; for , if you do not give it to me , as God lives , I will take it myself , ” — and much more of like tenor . It may not be amiss to say , in this connection , that , during the war that ensued , Toombs was made a ...
... give me the sword ; for , if you do not give it to me , as God lives , I will take it myself , ” — and much more of like tenor . It may not be amiss to say , in this connection , that , during the war that ensued , Toombs was made a ...
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