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Gunpowder Girls: Three Civil War Tragedies

Sherman's Union forces came ever nearer the city

this story carries the reader through the war’s most crucial juncture

Mustered into Company F of the Pennsylvania 49th Volunteers in September 1861

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Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union (David K. Thomson - CH) dvd Gunpowder Girls: Three Civil Warby David K. Thomson How does one package and sell confidence in the stability of a nation riven by civil strife? This was the question that loomed before the Philadelphia financial house of Jay Cooke & Company, entrusted by the US government with an unprecedented sale of bonds to finance the Union war effort in the early days of the American Civil War. How the government and its agents marketed these bonds revealed a version of the war the public was