Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union (David K. Thomson - CH) home by Scott Mingus Sr

by Scott Mingus Sr

Frank’s letters go beyond his direct combat experiences to include the camaraderie among the GIs

Wittenberg brings his expertise with Civil War cavalry operations to bear with vivid and insightful descriptions of the fighting and places the actions in their full and proper historic context

He details concerns about finances and the well-being of the family he left behind

That Lincoln succeeded

Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union (David K. Thomson - CH) home by Scott Mingus Srby 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