Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union (David K. Thomson - CH) medal by George Worthington Adams

by George Worthington Adams

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Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union (David K. Thomson - CH) medal by George Worthington Adamsby 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