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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... officers had resigned . That morning , the United States District Court had assembled in Charleston , over which one of the leaders of rebellion , Judge A. G. Magrath , presided . The Grand Jury , according to instructions , de- clined ...
... officers had resigned . That morning , the United States District Court had assembled in Charleston , over which one of the leaders of rebellion , Judge A. G. Magrath , presided . The Grand Jury , according to instructions , de- clined ...
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... officer of the State should arrest or detain ( or aid in so doing ) in any prison or building belonging to the State ... officers . The law in New Hampshire provided , that any slave brought into the State , by or with the consent of the ...
... officer of the State should arrest or detain ( or aid in so doing ) in any prison or building belonging to the State ... officers . The law in New Hampshire provided , that any slave brought into the State , by or with the consent of the ...
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... officers . The law in Vermont provided , that no court , justice of the peace , or magistrate , should take ... officers were for- bidden to arrest , or assist in arresting , any alleged fugitive slave . And no officer of the State ...
... officers . The law in Vermont provided , that no court , justice of the peace , or magistrate , should take ... officers were for- bidden to arrest , or assist in arresting , any alleged fugitive slave . And no officer of the State ...
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... officers , including judges , dis- trict attorneys , and marshals , affected by the delirium of rebellious fever , should resign their places - a part of the programme of revolution in South Carolina . already adopted , and which was ...
... officers , including judges , dis- trict attorneys , and marshals , affected by the delirium of rebellious fever , should resign their places - a part of the programme of revolution in South Carolina . already adopted , and which was ...
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... officers , sojourning in the District on business , bringing their slaves with them , and taking them with them when they should depart . IV . That Congress should have no power to prohibit or hinder the trans- portation of slaves from ...
... officers , sojourning in the District on business , bringing their slaves with them , and taking them with them when they should depart . IV . That Congress should have no power to prohibit or hinder the trans- portation of slaves from ...
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