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 HistoryE.B. Treat, 1866 - 752 páginas This book recounts the Civil War as a battle between "two nations of opposite civilizations" and that slavery enriched the South. |
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... held in check by eleven thousand Confederates . - Outwitted again by Johnston . - Retreat of the Confederates up the Peninsula . - Strategic merit of the movement . — Battle of Williamsburg . — Longstreet's division engaged . - Success ...
... held in check by eleven thousand Confederates . - Outwitted again by Johnston . - Retreat of the Confederates up the Peninsula . - Strategic merit of the movement . — Battle of Williamsburg . — Longstreet's division engaged . - Success ...
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... held the doctrine that the country had outlived the necessities of the Union , and had become involved in the abuses of a system , admirable enough in its early conception , but diverted from its original objects and now existing only ...
... held the doctrine that the country had outlived the necessities of the Union , and had become involved in the abuses of a system , admirable enough in its early conception , but diverted from its original objects and now existing only ...
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... held by New Hampshire , who on the 15th of June , 1776 , voted that the Thirteen United Colonies ought to be declared “ a free and independent State . " At this time the only common agent of the States was a Congress which really had no ...
... held by New Hampshire , who on the 15th of June , 1776 , voted that the Thirteen United Colonies ought to be declared “ a free and independent State . " At this time the only common agent of the States was a Congress which really had no ...
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... held to service or labour , ' and in a mixed and empirical rule of popular representation . However these provisions may imply the true status of slavery , how much is it to be regretted that the Convention did not make ( what might ...
... held to service or labour , ' and in a mixed and empirical rule of popular representation . However these provisions may imply the true status of slavery , how much is it to be regretted that the Convention did not make ( what might ...
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... held the doctrine that they were in no sense hostile to the Union , or malignant in their char- acter ; that they interpreted the true glory of America ; and that he was the wisest statesman who would constantly observe " the sacred ...
... held the doctrine that they were in no sense hostile to the Union , or malignant in their char- acter ; that they interpreted the true glory of America ; and that he was the wisest statesman who would constantly observe " the sacred ...
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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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Página 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...
Página 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,...
Página 614 - I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...