A Treasury of Civil War Stories

A Treasury of Civil War Stories
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Publisher : Gramercy
Total Pages : 552
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ISBN-10 : UOM:49015001153247
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Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis A Treasury of Civil War Stories by : Martin Harry Greenberg

Stories of the Civil War.

The Civil War

The Civil War
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Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000026740416
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Synopsis The Civil War by : Stephen W. Sears

This book does not recount the history of the Civil War. Rather, the intent is to give, in words and pictures, impressions of that war.

Ways and Means

Ways and Means
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 449
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ISBN-10 : 9780735223561
ISBN-13 : 0735223564
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Ways and Means by : Roger Lowenstein

“Captivating . . . [Lowenstein] makes what subsequently occurred at Treasury and on Wall Street during the early 1860s seem as enthralling as what transpired on the battlefield or at the White House.” —Harold Holzer, Wall Street Journal “Ways and Means, an account of the Union’s financial policies, examines a subject long overshadowed by military narratives . . . Lowenstein is a lucid stylist, able to explain financial matters to readers who lack specialized knowledge.” —Eric Foner, New York Times Book Review From renowned journalist and master storyteller Roger Lowenstein, a revelatory financial investigation into how Lincoln and his administration used the funding of the Civil War as the catalyst to centralize the government and accomplish the most far-reaching reform in the country’s history Upon his election to the presidency, Abraham Lincoln inherited a country in crisis. Even before the Confederacy’s secession, the United States Treasury had run out of money. The government had no authority to raise taxes, no federal bank, no currency. But amid unprecedented troubles Lincoln saw opportunity—the chance to legislate in the centralizing spirit of the “more perfect union” that had first drawn him to politics. With Lincoln at the helm, the United States would now govern “for” its people: it would enact laws, establish a currency, raise armies, underwrite transportation and higher education, assist farmers, and impose taxes for them. Lincoln believed this agenda would foster the economic opportunity he had always sought for upwardly striving Americans, and which he would seek in particular for enslaved Black Americans. Salmon Chase, Lincoln’s vanquished rival and his new secretary of the Treasury, waged war on the financial front, levying taxes and marketing bonds while desperately battling to contain wartime inflation. And while the Union and Rebel armies fought increasingly savage battles, the Republican-led Congress enacted a blizzard of legislation that made the government, for the first time, a powerful presence in the lives of ordinary Americans. The impact was revolutionary. The activist 37th Congress legislated for homesteads and a transcontinental railroad and involved the federal government in education, agriculture, and eventually immigration policy. It established a progressive income tax and created the greenback—paper money. While the Union became self-sustaining, the South plunged into financial free fall, having failed to leverage its cotton wealth to finance the war. Founded in a crucible of anticentralism, the Confederacy was trapped in a static (and slave-based) agrarian economy without federal taxing power or other means of government financing, save for its overworked printing presses. This led to an epic collapse. Though Confederate troops continued to hold their own, the North’s financial advantage over the South, where citizens increasingly went hungry, proved decisive; the war was won as much (or more) in the respective treasuries as on the battlefields. Roger Lowenstein reveals the largely untold story of how Lincoln used the urgency of the Civil War to transform a union of states into a nation. Through a financial lens, he explores how this second American revolution, led by Lincoln, his cabinet, and a Congress studded with towering statesmen, changed the direction of the country and established a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

The Legacy of the Civil War

The Legacy of the Civil War
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 83
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ISBN-10 : 9780803299276
ISBN-13 : 0803299273
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis The Legacy of the Civil War by : Robert Penn Warren

In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred thousand men killed) and economic (beyond reckoning) but social and psychological. He touches on popular misconceptions, including some concerning Abraham Lincoln and the issue of slavery. The war in all its facets "grows in our consciousness," arousing complex emotions and leaving "a gallery of great human images for our contemplation."

Civil War Treasury

Civil War Treasury
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Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Total Pages : 440
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89062315742
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Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Civil War Treasury by : Albert A. Nofi

A miscellany of arms, artillery, facts and figures, legends and lore.

A Civil War Treasury

A Civil War Treasury
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Publisher : Castle Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0785816860
ISBN-13 : 9780785816867
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis A Civil War Treasury by : Alfred A Nofi

Going beyond the battles and the memoirs, this book offers a unique, intimate and informative portrayal of this nation's greatest catastrophe, the War Between the States.

Confederate Treasury Notes

Confederate Treasury Notes
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1453816550
ISBN-13 : 9781453816554
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Confederate Treasury Notes by : Dave Nelson

A photographic guide to Confederate currency issued by the Confederate States Government during the War Between the States (US Civil War). This must have book for the Confederate currency collector is loaded with reference material and current banknote values. Contains color photos of the actual currency.

The Civil War Treasury: 1860-1862

The Civil War Treasury: 1860-1862
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Publisher : Bdd Promotional Book Company
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 0792452127
ISBN-13 : 9780792452126
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis The Civil War Treasury: 1860-1862 by : Alfred Nofi

This first volume covers the pre-war period, including the events that shaped the Civil War.

A Treasury of Civil War Tales

A Treasury of Civil War Tales
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 458
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ISBN-10 : 0783885695
ISBN-13 : 9780783885698
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis A Treasury of Civil War Tales by : Webb Garrison

Webb Garrison presents the Civil War in a collection of stories that capture what the war was like for the people who lived through it. Arranged chronologically, the stories begin with the publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and events leading up to the war. They trace the action through five years and conclude with Reconstruction and the presidential election of 1876. Included are stories of the slave Dred Scott, Red Cross founder Clara Barton, suspected spy Mrs. Rose Greenhow, assistant army surgeon Mary Walker, and President Andrew Johnson.

A Treasury of American Folklore

A Treasury of American Folklore
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Total Pages : 970
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106006444902
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Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis A Treasury of American Folklore by : Benjamin Albert Botkin

A collection of folklore, including an index of authors, titles, and first lines of songs and an index of subjects and names.