Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War (Roger Lowenstein - LP) artifact As closely observed and vividly

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Following the Battle of Gettysburg Lydia returned home to find her small house damaged from Confederate artillery that preceded Pickett’s Charge and the orchards

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Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War (Roger Lowenstein - LP) artifact As closely observed and vividlyby Roger Lowenstein Upon his election to the presidency, Abraham Lincoln inherited a country in crisis. Even before the Confederacys 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 opportunitythe chance to legislate in the centralizing spirit of the more perfect union that had first drawn him to politics. With Lincoln