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 HistoryThis book recounts the Civil War as a battle between "two nations of opposite civilizations" and that slavery enriched the South. |
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Κριτική χρηστών - davidveal - LibraryThingThis was published very soon after the end of the War. Edward A. Pollard was an editor of "The Richmond Examiner" and had access to a huge amount of data and the assistance of many reporters and ... Ανάγνωση ολόκληρης της κριτικής
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A. P. Hill advance arms army artillery assault attack bank batteries battle Beauregard Bragg brigade campaign captured cavalry Charleston Chattanooga column command commenced Confederacy Confederate forces Congress Constitution contest Convention corps crossed D. H. Hill declared defence division early enemy enemy's evacuation Federal fire flank fleet Fort Sumter Fort Wagner front garrison Government Grant gunboats guns held Hill hundred infantry Jackson James River Johnston Kentucky Lee's Lincoln Longstreet Manassas McClellan ment miles military Mississippi Missouri Morris Island Mountain moved movement night North Northern officers operations party pieces of artillery political position Potomac President Davis prisoners railroad reached rear regiments reinforcements Republican retreat Richmond river road secession sentiment Shenandoah Valley Sherman side slavery soldiers South Carolina Southern success Sumter superiour surrender Tennessee Territories thousand tion troops Union United Valley vessels Vicksburg victory Virginia Washington wounded
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Σελίδα 445 - suppressing the rebellion by military force—by armies. Long experience has shown that armies cannot be maintained unless desertion shall be punished by the severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a
Σελίδα 97 - judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law: 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 the Militia of the several States of the Union to
Σελίδα 63 - We hold with Jefferson to the inalienable right of communities to alter or abolish forms of government that have become oppressive or injurious, and if the Cotton States shall become satisfied that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go hi peace.
Σελίδα 65 - 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. " Second. That it is the duty of the Federal Government, in all its departments, to protect, when necessary, the rights of persons and property in the Territories and
Σελίδα 646 - of the Army of Northern Virginia, as proposed by you. As they are susbtantially the same as those expressed in your letter of the 8th inst., they are accepted. I will proceed to designate the proper officers to carry the stipulations into effect. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, R
Σελίδα 63 - from the highest sources, both of official and popular authority in the North. Indeed, the President-elect, Mr. Lincoln, had, at another period of his public life, made this remarkable declaration : " Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake
Σελίδα 290 - in positions from which yon can act promptly and to the purpose. I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies—from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found, whose policy
Σελίδα 349 - such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that snch State, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United States." This was followed by the proclamation of 1st January, 1863, designating the States in which emancipation should take immediate effect; the notice of one hundred days, counting from the preliminary proclamation,
Σελίδα 643 - General: I received your note of this morning on the picket-line, whither I had come to meet you and ascertain definitely what terms were embraced in your proposition of yesterday with reference to the surrender of this army. I now request an interview in accordance with the offer contained in your letter of yesterday for that purpose. Very respectfully,
Σελίδα 642 - that I insist upon, viz.: That the men surrendered shall be disqualified for taking up arms again against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged. I will meet you, or designate officers to meet any officers you may name for the
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| Τίτλος | 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 Library of American civilization Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive 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 Distingunished Confederate Leaders, Edward Alfred Pollard |
| Συγγραφέας | Edward Alfred Pollard |
| Εκδότης | E.B. Treat, 1866 |
| ISBN | 0517101319, 9780517101315 |
| Μέγεθος | 752 σελίδες |
| Εξαγωγή αναφοράς | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |